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Word: deal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the U.S. military provides an overwhelming deterrent to any rational adversary, we must also worry about how to deal with potential threats from sources that are not rational. And it is against these dangers that the Administration is developing and testing a limited NMD system, with a decision on deployment possible as early as next summer. This decision will be based on our overall security interests and will take into account cost, threat, technological feasibility and effects on arms control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call for American Consensus | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...must admit, however, that there are certain amenities provided by my bathroom at home that are simply not available in a Winthrop House bathroom. For one thing, it's nice not to have to deal with a sink that hits the basin at such an angle that the water splashes back onto your clothing, making it look, every morning, like you just got a little too excited about your upcoming economics lecture. More importantly, the home presence of angelically soft toilet paper cannot be overappreciated. That's not to say I don't appreciate the College's two-ply version...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Home: An Acculturation Guide | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...this week reached a landmark trade deal with China, which opens the way for that country's entry into the World Trade Organization. Who led Washington's negotiating team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Think You're Well-Informed? | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia this week signed a deal to pump oil to the West through a pipeline that will bypass both Russia and Iran. Where is that oil drilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Think You're Well-Informed? | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Comdex has a few redeeming qualities, like getting to hear Bill Gates wax eloquent about programming on a Tandy personal computer over 20 years ago. When Microsoft struck a deal with the Tandy-owned Radio Shack chain, he was surprised to find some of the same people he'd dealt with back in the day. "Once you get to Tandy, you never leave," he observed to a gaggle of journos at a post-keynote shindig. Oh, but that was off the record, so you didn't hear it from me. MORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digital Dish: A Semi-Charmed Kind of Comdex | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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