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Word: coverly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he went in. He has spent a year in the dark, ever since that night last January when he called his slippery guru Dick Morris and asked him to take the country's moral temperature. When Morris' polling suggested that people could stomach an affair but not a cover-up, Clinton's response was his mantra. "Well, we'll just have to win then." Now, on the anniversary of that vow, the President seems to have made good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Campaign | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...Harkin spent last Sunday reaching out to old members of the club to recruit someone for the President's team. Bumpers seemed to be the perfect fit: he knows the Senators' moves and speaks their language, could give them the cover they needed to end the trial. Trouble was, Bumpers was not familiar with the minutiae of the charges. "He was very reluctant," says Harkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Campaign | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...spray away weeds without spraying away their harvest. The company has also developed plants with a built-in toxin that is harmless to humans but lethal to insects. If farmers in the developing world use these muscled-up crops--even with Terminator genes--their harvests might increase enough to cover the cost of buying seeds each spring. Says Delta and Pine Land vice president Harry Collins: "It will help them become more production-oriented rather than remaining subsistence farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suicide Seeds | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

EXPECTING. CINDY CRAWFORD, 31, All-American cover girl; with nightclub impresario Rande Gerber, 36, whom she married last spring. The Gerber baby is due in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 1, 1999 | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...working," she explained. "They told me whom to vote for." When votes were tallied, Lei Mingxiang, 54, the high school principal and a five-term incumbent, was the surprise loser, a victim of parents' wrath. Earlier, Lei had asked each household to fork over 100 renminbi ($12), partly to cover repair of the school building. "What can I do?" he sighs. "The government does not have enough money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyewitness: An Experiment in Voting, If Not Democracy | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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