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Word: desks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stepashin, meanwhile, had turned coy about his own presidential ambitions. Like Primakov before him, he had become too popular for the Kremlin's liking. Over the weekend, as polls showing Stepashin pulling even with Luzhkov landed on Voloshin's desk, and militant separatists in the Caucasus reappeared on Russian TV screens, the Family gathered and Yeltsin pulled the trigger. "Stepashin made no major mistakes," says a Kremlin aide. "He simply failed to become the good dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Puppet Master | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...fill. But Julian Brown, the British designer of Isis, has a history of creating ambitious office supplies: he gave us Hannibal, the similarly spiffy tape dispenser. When stood on her nose, the front-loading, translucent Isis ($68) rocks gently back and forth, making her the ideal accessory for the desk of the overpaid but underworked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Object Found | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...know what your things are worth on the market. For help in doing that, see Professional Sports Authenticator's website psacard.com or Sportscard Guaranty's website sgccard.com) Now if only they'd help me get back the ball signed by Bob Gibson that's sitting on my son's desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in the Game | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Making things easier, the Yamaha attaches to your PC via the USB port. I borrowed a pair of Bose speakers and plugged them in. Instead of putting them on my desk as I would have with traditional PC speakers, I dropped them in the corners of my office. Then I fired up a movie. With the audio clarity, I felt as if I were at the multiplex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound Machines | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...declared that martial law was not coming to the City of Angels. The "community" of Los Angeles, he hoped, would find a way to heal without a cop on every corner. The courts? Furrows had served his time for his confused knife-wielding at a mental-hostpital check-in desk; he was on probation because he hadn?t hurt anybody before. And the First Amendment says that even Neo-Nazis must be deemed harmless until they prove us wrong. This being frontier-hewn America, which because it cannot forswear all its guns forswears almost none of them, a Buford Furrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sadly, There'll Always Be Another Buford Furrow | 8/12/1999 | See Source »

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