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Word: ans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Immediately, I e-mailed an invitation to our local Internet hero, America Online CEO Steve Case. A reply came by phone: Would we mind faxing the information?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

The trouble didn't necessarily end with delivery. When I sampled the beef Wellington, although remarkably juicy and delicious, I realized it wasn't going to slice cleanly into pieces suitable for lap dining (fearful everyone would be busy during Washington's party-gridlock season, I had let the guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

But not as boring as going hungry. Dinner by committee was my worst idea yet. Through Jeeves, I reached the Smithfield Collection smithfield-companies.com/collection) and despite the pretentious name for a company that slaughters pigs, I got delivery of a crusty, honey-soaked ham in an ice chest left under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

At this point, I realized I needed a real-life Jeeves. Who better to serve food with snootiness sufficient to obscure its Internet provenance? Ironically, my virtual Jeeves couldn't produce a human one. He did tell me of a school in the Netherlands where I could "learn the true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

The echoes of her past could be heard in every statement of uncompromising purpose, each insistence that her war was just. In her third year as the country's first female Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, a child of Europe's dark century, pushed and prodded the U.S. and its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Who Mattered | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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