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Word: bustingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three (read: two) of four (really, six) chapters down. Of course, a little bit (relative to `a lot') of revision would be good (`is necessary for you to pass'). My adviser says I'm really on top of it. (Actual quote: `You're gonna have to bust your butt some more over the next week.') And, I've got two weeks or so left. (That included Feb. 29 and 30.) Oh, it's really much better than I expected. (High hopes.) Really...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Thesis | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...wonders, did he mention the 40 death threats he has received? Yes. About 40 times. That he wrote a book titled America's Toughest Sheriff? Got it right here, Joe, along with some newspaper clippings. In his den at home, Arpaio keeps favorable clips filed chronologically under a bust of--guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arizona: It's No Party in the County Jail | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...long this boom-and-bust cycle has been operating, no one really knows. Finding out might seem to be a hopeless task, considering that the phenomenon was discovered only about a century ago by Peruvian fishermen. (It was they who called it El Nino, the Spanish name for the Christ child whose December birthday marks its peak.) But last fall, Columbia University oceanographer Richard Fairbanks was floating in the equatorial Pacific gathering data that could tell researchers about El Ninos going back thousands of years. Working aboard the research vessel Moana Wave, Fairbanks spent weeks at El Nino's very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury Of El Nino | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...wish she lived back in Beverly Hills, because she loves the camera," says Mr. Blackwell, the famous arbiter of fashion disasters. "Beverly Hills would be more suitable for her because it's a more plastic area." Monica is essentially a feline, Mr. Blackwell says. "She loves cleavage, bust lines, scoop necks, legs, the whole scene." And thank God, says he, she got rid of those dreadful bangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ain't We Got Fun | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...Teamsters Go Bust Reform has done what the Mob couldn't: Deplete the union's piggy bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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