Word: drag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trade and payments deficits, by making U.S. goods and services cheaper in other countries and imports more expensive here. But those effects might not be felt for three or four years--certainly not in 1999. Next year, members of the TIME board say, the worsening deficits will exert enough drag on the U.S. economy to produce, finally, the slowdown so long forecast...
...also argue that the suit has had a galvanizing affect on the industry as a whole: Witness the dramatic AOL-Netscape deal, and the renewed interest in wacky, alternative computing strategies, such as the free operating system Linux and the so-called networked computer. However long the trial may drag on, in just nine weeks it has already changed the face of history...
...article "Time to Put Women in Drag, Too" (Opinion, Dec. 10), Matthew E. Johnson makes a series of long-overdue suggestions for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT). The tremendous success of Guys & Dolls is testament to the fact that other productions should be allowed to grace the historic HPT stage. And perhaps the Woman of the Year event should take top billing every other year so as not to place sole emphasis on the Man of the Year tradition...
Moreover, for the House to occasion a trial in which Monica S. Lewinsky, Linda Tripp and other specious characters would take the stand in front of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist would be to drag this nation, weary of scandal and partisan posturing, through the mud for much...
...because it made a good story. While we may convince ourselves that we read the newspaper to become informed members of a democracy, we really read it for stories. I didn't want the Texas Fugitive Guy to re-enter society. I just wanted the chase to drag out into a page-turning action-mystery. Or a romantic tearjerker. Or any of those Blockbuster categories...