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Word: circuitous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...houses selling guns to juveniles or guns that ended up on the streets of places like Detroit have decided not to sell firearms because of this," says Dwight Pridgen, chief of Alabama's natural resources and license tax division. "The sad thing is that we found at least one circuit judge and a few state legislators who were dealing guns on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Beyond the Brady Bill | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...already creeping up, though so far only to a bit above rock bottom. A much more widespread worry is that the tax increases included in Clinton's deficit-cutting program will take a bite out of the economy. Finally, worsening recessions in Western Europe and Japan could well short-circuit an increase in U.S. exports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs a Boom? | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

Despite their different musical backgrounds (Bela was trained and played for years on the bluegrass circuit; Victor got his musical training from his eclectically talented family), Bela and Victor continually find new ways to complement each other. They weave patterns, they build harmonies, they layer melodies, they solo, they return and play together, they stop and start and pop and jump and reach and it all works. Future Man is a subtle and exciting SynthAxe player (the SynthAxe Drumitar is an instrument that Future Man invented: it looks like a guitar, is played with one's fingers, and sounds like...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Bela Fleck: `Pleasing, interesting sounds' | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

Those who did not make it into the main roomwere ushered into two Kennedy School classroomswith closed-circuit television. "They were filledto capacity and held close to 100 people in eachroom," Caputo said...

Author: By John Wagley, | Title: Security Tight for Gore Visit | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

...resemble Hong Kong, a stateless special economic zone full of expats and exiles linked by the lingua franca of English and the global marketplace. Some urbanists already see the world as a grid of 30 or so highly advanced city- regions, or technopoles, all plugged into the same international circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Village Finally Arrives | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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