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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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At this point, I realized I needed a real-life Jeeves. Who better to serve food with snootiness sufficient to obscure its Internet provenance? Ironically, my virtual Jeeves couldn't produce a human one. He did tell me of a school in the Netherlands where I could "learn the true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

If you believe that the booming American economy is the story of the 1990s, then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gets my vote as Person of the Decade. The American economy will mark its longest period of uninterrupted expansion this February. During the past nine years, the U.S. unemployment rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Who Mattered | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

The echoes of her past could be heard in every statement of uncompromising purpose, each insistence that her war was just. In her third year as the country's first female Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, a child of Europe's dark century, pushed and prodded the U.S. and its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Who Mattered | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

The Tolberts of Pinckney, in southeastern Michigan, are all very tall. It can be hard for girls to be big, which is one reason James and Denise Tolbert were happy that Kristina, their 16-year-old, 6-ft. 3-in. daughter, wanted to play basketball. But Pinckney High School won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside, Wanting In | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Opponents also see it as a matter of fairness--not fairness to taxpayers but to students. Officials say kids in traditional schools follow strict requirements--good attendance, decent grades--to become eligible for athletics. They say they have no way to know whether parents would lie to make their home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside, Wanting In | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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