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Word: contently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fans will be more than content withLife Won't Wait, although it might requirea listening transition if you've become accustomedto the traditional Rancid sound or are unfamiliarwith reggae. As long as you appreciate thechallenge to the group's style that this albumpresents, it won't take long to sink your teethin

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Street-Rock to Punk-Reggae: Rancid Grows Up | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...country, only one in the narrow political calculations of its major political players: a Republican Congress with a slim majority desperate to play to the activists who will turn out in the fall, a White House too distracted and declawed by scandal to fight and an electorate too content to complain much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up In Smoke | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...hill across from his house, not far from where his father is buried. It is a sizable sum, built up over the years from the surplus grain and vegetables he has been able to sell since farmers' markets were legalized in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping. Chen is content: after seven decades of working the soil and being nourished by it, he has made all the arrangements to return to it, in the simplest of life cycles. He represents the first wave of free enterprise in China's long effort to modernize. Now, in the second wave, rural people are heading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Summit: The Pulse Of China | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...powerful market force by helping generate an estimated 30% to 40% of the movie Titanic's $580 million U.S. gross. All told, young women ages 12 to 19 spent $60 billion last year, according to Teen Research Unlimited. But many of them believe that when it comes to cultural content, they are being sold a bill of used and impractical goods. A 1997 study commissioned by the advocacy organization Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 71% of girls ages 16 and 17 said the female characters on TV were unrealistically thin; in fact, the girls chose males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism: Girl Power | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...Fighting in Kosovo intensified this week even as the U.S. envoy shuttled back and forth between the warring parties. Holbrooke left the region warning that NATO is stepping up preparations for those air strikes on the Serbs. For now, at least, Milosevic appears content to call his bluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holbrooke's Mission Fails | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

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