Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of them disagreed with the content, which basically meant that they saw nothing wrong with calling certain people "orientals" even though one girl had written about how much it offended her and even though plenty of more sophisticated literature had been written criticizing that term...
WASHINGTON: At this point, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, the White House has resigned itself to letting the Secret Service talk. "Starr has said he will not ask about overheard conversations between Lindsey and the President," he says. "He just wants them to corroborate certain points of the Tripp tapes, and the White House is done trying to stop the testimony." But on Tuesday in the well-trafficked courthouse, there was another battle being waged: the one over Leakgate...
...rock stars; now it belongs to disgruntled media executives. Whether the Brown-Galotti-Weinstein alliance will prove to be another DreamWorks, which seems to be working out O.K., or a misguided marriage, like Mike Ovitz being shoehorned into Disney, remains to be seen. Only the sizzle, the sell, is certain. As a reporter prepares to turn off his tape recorder, the interview over, Weinstein can't help but remind him, "You've got some humdinger stuff there...
...There will be only one five-year holding period before you become eligible for withdrawals. It would begin the year you open your first Roth and apply to all money added later. You still must be 59 1/2 or use the money for certain exceptions like the purchase of a first home. But money contributed several years after the Roth is established becomes available for withdrawal that much sooner...
...their subject. His book may be useful to the surprising number of people--Flat-Earthers of the moral realm--who, even now, refuse to believe in the existence of evil. To them, admitting evil's reality seems to empower the irrational in an intolerable way, to give it a certain vulgar, primitive mystification. We can't have that...