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Word: closeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amid the grim, impersonal regularity of natural disasters, we are often unmoved by statistics. It is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home. In the devastated town of Duzce, a British rescuer wedged deep in a narrow crevice heard a tap-tap-tap so close he could almost touch whoever was making the sound. Then an aftershock cascaded masonry through the 30-ft. tunnel as the rescuers slithered back out. When they took another route and reached the spot where the tapping had been heard, two dead bodies lay there. "It hurts when it ends like this," team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: Buried Alive | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Televised baseball has become a struggle between nontalking heads. The close-up today totally overshadows the close play. Those responsible for broadcasting baseball have all decided that the game is not about throwing or hitting or catching or running or offense or defense or teamwork of any ilk. TV baseball is now about facial expressions or the lack thereof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dueling Head Shots | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Seven years ago, struggling artist Thomas Kinkade sat in a secluded gallery well past closing time, determinedly propounding the virtues of his luminescent garden-and-cottage scenes to a young couple. He was going to give it a few more months, Kinkade told the couple, and if he couldn't sell enough paintings to earn a living, well, he'd close up shop and move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Of Selling Kitsch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor Data"It?s just more good news," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl (although that wasn't immediately reflected in the market, which took profits from Wednesday?s record close). "This takes even more pressure off the Fed to raise rates again anytime soon; the economy seems to be slowing down just as it hoped." Thursday?s report isn?t a guarantee, though. Most of the slowdown was due to the trade deficit; imports aren?t counted in the GDP, although they do show up in the overall economy when cash-loaded consumers head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wow! Greenspan's Soft Landing Is Already Here | 8/26/1999 | See Source »

...first stage. That makes it much more difficult to build. Preventing vibration from one of the motors from interfering with another motor is not easy. And since it has a longer range than anything they have used before, it is a big challenge to get it remotely close to the target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: Trigger-Happy | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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