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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...veteran team now. We're not looking back at last year. Guys might dig in a little bit deeper against Princeton, though. We want to show that the way to the Ivy League title goes through Harvard," he added...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: M. Baseball Set for Cornell Showdown | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...Most of the music accompanying the show was composed by a member of the circus company, but often the orchestra plays familiar pop hits at appropriate moments. During the stock horse act, they play a toned down version of "Groovin."' On the other hand, the orchestra sometimes gets a bit carried away with the pop music, at one point subjecting the audience 40 seconds of Grandma, the circus's star clown, dancing the evil "Macarena...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, | Title: A Circus Maximus for All Ages | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...available online prompted a howl of protests from critics, who charged that anyone armed with another person's Social Security number, mother's maiden name and state where they were born could access records containing job history, salary and other information. Still, the fuss may contain more than a bit of unnecessary cyber-hysteria. Under the previous system, the agency would mail the records to anyone providing the same information along with a signature. Since the SSA has no way of checking the accuracy of the signatures, the old system really isn't any more secure than the web site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Security | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

...challenges to Mobutu's once unquestionable authority -- ordering a parliament packed with Mobutu's supporters dissolved, annulling the constitution and offering Cabinet posts to representatives of Kabila's army -- proved too much for Mobutu, who is dying of prostate cancer. Even so, Mobutu?s move won't make a bit of difference, says TIME's Marguerite Michaels. "Mobutu controls nothing. There really is no government in power in Zaire. The question is what will happen between Kabila and Tshisekedi. Tshisekedi is the only one who can work with Kabila, and we know Kabila will just continue to take ground, moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mobutu?s Final Insult | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

...normally rather sober Advertising Age trade magazine, NEWT GINGRICH, bearing a feather mustache, gives his advice on eating crow. "The key is start early. With just a few feathers a day," says the copy. "Then when the time comes to swallow the whole bird, you won't gag a bit." The American Dairy Association isn't a Comedy Central advertiser, but its sister organization, the California Milk Advisory Board, is. Let's hope it isn't a big account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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