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Word: backyard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't pretty, but the seventhranked Harvard men's tennis team overcame midterm blues, jetlag, the outdoors and erratic individual play to rip the U.C.-Irvine tourney championship from the jaws of ninth-ranked U.C.-Irvine in Davis backyard...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netmen Capture U.C.-Irvine Tourney | 4/3/1990 | See Source »

...change daily, depending on what is available. Since there is no federal definition of what is organic, chefs tend to rely on products certified as authentic by various local groups. They rush as often as five times a week to local farmers' markets or grow their own produce in backyard gardens. Appointed buyers search for veal that is "humanely raised" and fed milk from cows that eat organic grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Bye-Bye, Tofu; Hello, Truffles! | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...afternoon in early November after cruising gang members twice tried to run down his son, the beleaguered auto mechanic finally lost his cool. Rodriguez fired a semiautomatic pistol into the air from his backyard to signal that he'd been pushed far enough. Neighbors called the police, who this time arrived within minutes and arrested Rodriguez. "I begged them not to take me and leave my family without protection," he remembers bitterly. But Ralph Rodriguez went to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting The Code of Silence | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

When George Bush took office about a year ago, he could look around at a tidy club of democratic, market-oriented friends staring across a wall at a bunch of backyard bullies. The wall fell down, the bullies were chased off, and now everybody wants into George's club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Freedom's Multi-Ring Circus | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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