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Word: caps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another stood around 5'6" and wore a beige jacket, the victims said. The third assailant was a white male who wore a black jacket, black knit cap and red sweatshirt, they said...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather Assault Suspect Arrested | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

Amazon, once criticized as a bookseller that would never show a profit, turns out to have used its online book business as a template for forays into music, drugs, pets and, this week, online auctions, perhaps the hottest area on the Web. Maybe its $28 billion market cap isn't so wacky if Amazon becomes the world's first online department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long-Term Carping | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...suspect was believed to have been wearing a dark colored baseball cap with a red letter "A" on it, a black nylon, waistlength jacket, black jeans and tan work boots at the time of the incident. He is described as speaking in a low, slow voice...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GSE Library Staffer Assaulted After Confronting Wallet Thief | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...sailor, explorer, inventor, best-selling author, prizewinning filmmaker, passionate environmentalist and canny businessman. Instantly recognizable by his pipe, red cap and gaunt silhouette, Jacques-Yves Cousteau--a.k.a. "Captain Planet"--was arguably the century's best known, most popular Frenchman. For generations of scuba divers--and millions of armchair explorers--he created a crystal-clear window for the unseen world beneath the waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Lord Of The Depths | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...idea of electronic television--the moment of inspiration coming, according to legend, while he was tilling a potato field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images the same way, line by line, just as you read a book. To cap it off, he spent much of his adult life in a struggle with one of America's largest and most powerful corporations. Our kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electrical Engineer PHILO FARNSWORTH | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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