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Word: answering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible answer can be found in how much Harvard hews to the controversial practice of subcontracting--which allows them to pay market rates without being accused of cheating its own employees...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder and M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Does Harvard Have a Responsibility to Make Employees Part of the Community | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

...team owners to grass. Virtually every new non-domed stadium under construction will have a grass surface. The Chicago Bears and the New England Patriots, as well as a number of baseball teams, switched back to grass several years ago. But even Gaines acknowledges that grass isn't the answer everywhere, particularly in northern climes and on municipal fields that get tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tragic Carpet? | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Damned if I can figure him out, though," Morris continues to his wife. "Is he a political genius, or a bore?" This, of course, is the central Reagan conundrum that many biographers have tried to answer. As he seeks to answer it, Morris traces the life of the future, nearly godlike President through the eyes of the fictional Morris. There is an encounter on the football field: "The square-cut youth and I briefly exchanged glances... A million miles away a factory siren wailed. His purposeful body moved on, exuding liniment. I dropped the candy wrapper I had been holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixing Fact and Fiction | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...answer is in your attic, also in your bedroom, kitchen and other parts of your home that represent the equity you, like millions of other Americans, have built up over those years of paying down mortgages. Lenders are willing--even eager--to advance you cash up to the full amount of that equity. And sometimes even more. Like millions of other homeowners who have taken up the offer, you can spend the money any way you want and take years to repay--at some of the cheapest interest rates you'll ever find, even after the Federal Reserve's latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House-Rich | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...wireless companies can create a unified billing policy. Good luck. AT&T tested a caller-pays system in Minneapolis this summer but charged rates that were too high to compete with its own Digital One plan, which bills at 11[cents] a minute. End of test. So if you answer the call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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