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Word: fittingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason? Green says the first search failed to find a candidate that fit the needs of an associate provost. Perhaps like the provost's role, the associate provost position is having its parameters defined by the needs of the central administration...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The First Year as a Provost | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

...countryside. "We didn't know quite what we were going to do until we found this tree near a cornfield that was split right down the middle into a V," says Doug. He loaded one shell and carefully worked the gun into the crotch of the tree until it fit tightly. Then, while both boys crouched behind the sides of the tree, Doug reached around to the gun, felt for the trigger, closed his eyes and squeezed. "I just love that sound," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...wears three gold earrings and favors a black baseball cap emblazoned with a marijuana leaf. "I don't know why, but stuff just started getting hectic, real rough. I mean you can get jumped for no reason." The small, .25-cal. Raven pistol, which he bought from a friend, fit snugly in the pocket of his winter vest. He even took it along to his telemarketing job after work, where he earns $6.50 an hour manning the phones. He says, "If people know you have a gun, they just don't mess with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

Brokers usually pass the low-cost shares only to clients who generate the fattest commissions. Foley, a stock-market neophyte with a small account, does not fit that profile. "Foley may just be lucky in the stock market," comments Ellen Miller, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group. "But it raises the question, Did he get a special deal, and why do people want to be so especially nice to members of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock Deals for the Rich and Famous | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...started slaughtering the local ungulates. After that, supposedly, the only violence prehumans had to worry about was from other stick-wielding bipeds like themselves. Thus some punctured australopithecine skulls found in Africa were at first chalked up to "intentional armed assault" -- until someone pointed out that the punctures precisely fit the tooth gap of the leopard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth of Man As Hunter | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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