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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The congregation has publicly stated its desire to buy the property outright--to the point of making a $2.7 million counteroffer that congregation leaders admit, they likely cannot pay.

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Congregation, Harvard Mull Counteroffers As Developer Bids on Swedenborg Church | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

What drives this blue-collar philanthropist? One spur is his own thwarted desire for higher education. Growing up the fifth of seven children in Shreveport, he had to drop out of school after seventh grade to help support his family. "I always wanted to better myself," says Dawson, "but I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue-Collar Benefactor | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

"The whole focus here is the story," says Redford, who grew up the son of a Los Angeles milkman in a neighborhood sandwiched by Beverly Hills and the barrio. Those clashing cultures, mixed with an interest in jazz and the Beat scene, infused in him a lifelong, insatiable desire for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sundance Summer | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

In contrast to the old days, when the goal of coloring your hair was to make sure nobody could tell, the new wave grows out of a peacock-like desire to make sure everyone within a 10-mile radius notices. Chris Landry, 25, sits on a chair at Urban Renewal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: A Man and His Colorist | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

So then I'm swimming in theory and evidence and Supreme Court cases and all sorts of dry, dense academic materials. Pretty soon, I've lost all desire to read anything more than a newspaper (which, thankfully, I still enjoy reading).

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: Hitting the Books | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

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