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Word: backstab (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started coordinating social events, on the premise that if people have a certain degree of camaraderie, they will be less likely to backstab and treat other students with less than adequate respect...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 1L | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

Some songs on the album are far more bearable than others, and a few may even be classified as vaguely enjoyable. The perky "Backstab Boofie," has a charming exuberance and, since the lyrics are quite unintelligible, is not as embarrassing to listen to as typical YES!! fare. There's nothing wrong with pithy lyrics and limited vocal abilities--check out Cibo Mat-to--but such an approach needs to be tempered by some skilled irony in the delivery. Knox takes himself so seriously that he is dragged into a pit of self-involvement from which there is no escape. Knox...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Repetitive and Self-Indulgent Ramblings | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...cast a brighter light in the short term, but Commerce generally wins big in the final tally. The high-tech world had spent the past month wondering which Apple-preserving rabbit Jobs would pull from his hat during his MacWorld speech. Now we know: the plan is to backstab Apple's friends by embracing their mutual enemy in one naked grasp for survival. The era of "competition between Apple and Microsoft is over," Jobs told the stunned conclave, announcing Microsoft's $150 million investment and software promises. They could all just get along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM... | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

Christopher and the other two members of the troika that helps run U.S. foreign policy -- Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and National Security Adviser Tony Lake -- share all the virtues in the Boy Scout Oath and then some: they are talented, intelligent, hardworking men who rarely backstab or second-guess one another. They argue correctly that they have done well enough on the issues that affect the country's most vital interests, including Russia, the Middle East, relations with Japan, and the future of NATO. It is also true that Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti are intricate problems with no easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The No-Guts, No-Glory Guys | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

They're baa-ack. After a vacation for NBC's Olympic fortnight, Jay Leno returns to The Tonight Show to find his competition with late-night rival Arsenio Hall fiercer than any jock grudge match. Consider the events. The javelin backstab. The 100-m bad-mouth. Synchronized sniping. Follyball. And -- given Leno's 33% ratings advantage over Hall -- the uneven parallel talk shows. Who needs Barcelona? These are the games of summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad Boys of Summer | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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