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Word: catchings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race started out as a game of catch-up for Yale. The Crimson jumped out to a two-seat lead at the half-mile mark, but by the mile mark, the Bulldogs had pulled even...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Falls to Yale in 134th Regatta | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataIt's a serious catch-up bid. America's largest stock brokerage is matching leader Charles Schwab's $29.95-per-trade rate (that's sans advice), and offering another plan of their own: $1,500 a year for unlimited trades and unlimited advice. Merrill's bigwigs are touting that plan as the best way to go, pointing out that you'll get more unbiased advice from a broker who doesn't work on a per-trade commission (and like most flat-fee programs, it's on average a good moneymaker for Merrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merrill Lynch Gets With the Program | 6/2/1999 | See Source »

...second, a new version of Stravinsky's Firebird, for the Boston Ballet, as well as working on a dance-themed film by Nicholas Hytner (The Object of My Affection). "If a company calls and I have the time," he says cheerily, "I'll do it." There's just one catch: if they want somebody trendy, they'll have to call somebody else. "Ballet has to move forward, yes, but it doesn't have to lose its magic and romanticism and lyricism," he explains. "Romanticism will never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Christopher Wheeldon: Master of His Domain | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...biggest catch is that you have to eat three servings a day for the rest of your life. When test subjects stopped using the spreads, their cholesterol levels crept back up within a week. It's sort of like taking medicine--medicine that costs as much as $5 for a week's supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Sure Ain't Butter | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...street or in a pharmacy. A profoundly mixed message is being sent to teens when certain substances are demonized for promoting the same subjective states touted on the labels of other compounds. Adolescents, who are famously alert to hypocrisy among their elders, will surely be the first to catch this irony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Danger of Suppressing Sadness | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

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