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Word: desks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those little 20 percent discount cards from the Harvard Book Store that are lying in your wallet, purse or desk drawer. Use them...

Author: By Amanda P. Fortini, | Title: 100 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU GRADUATE | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

They came across my desk bing, bang, boom: three books that, years from now, may prove to have been the clearest sell signal ever missed. It was spring 1996, and, yes, the stock market has been levitating since then. Sometimes sell signals are early. The first book was by David and Tom Gardner, a brother act in jester hats with the catchy title of Motley Fool Investment Guide. The second, The Whiz Kid of Wall Street's Investment Guide, was by Matt Seto, 17. The third was the now infamous debut, Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jail the Beardstown Ladies! | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...naughty Web address to a co-worker, which not so long ago would have been deemed not just harmless but constitutionally protected. While it's rare for nonthreatening behavior to be ruled harassment, it happens. In 1993 the University of Nebraska forced a grad student to remove from his desk a picture of his bikini-clad wife after two fellow students complained that the photo violated the school's sexual-harassment policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Sex And The Law | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...formative values, even as he rose in the ranks of the army and came to rule in the aftermath of the deadly coup. "He was conditioned by this village," says Notosuwito, a half brother of the President's and village chief of neighboring Argomulyo since 1969. Sitting at his desk signing forms and smoking clove-scented cigarettes, Notosuwito explains that he himself has 50 retainers. They work for him, and in return he makes sure they are fed, that their daughters marry well, that they have money if they are sick. "It is similar with Suharto," Notosuwito says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia On The Brink | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

LINDA TRIPP Bosses say she can't work at home anymore. She'll just have to tape her friends at her desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 23, 1998 | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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