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Word: following (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told them to quit whining. After all, this was a team that had only three wins in each of the three seasons before Morris showed up in 1997. But the players knew their coach's fastball was major league scary. So when he gave them a pep talk about following their dreams, they challenged him to follow his own and try out for a major league club. And they offered him a deal: if their team, the Owls, made the state tournament, Morris would go to a major league tryout. He agreed, just to get them to shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oldest Rookie | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...start. Too bad their programs weren't half as good as their marketing pitch. The daily news show was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't. Girl's Locker Talk was a cheesy sex-talk show, and In the Neighborhood was just plain strange: viewers got to follow a guy wandering around Venice Beach, Calif., trying to pick up women and hanging out with eccentric friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV on the Web | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...luck of the Irish has always been their misery, at least where Ireland's writers have been concerned. Suffering makes for better stories than comfort does. Pain turns pages. And the best happy endings follow unhappy beginnings. (Although not always; see following review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Best of the Boyos | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...major problem is how to quantify information of this nature. When auditors go over a company's books, they can follow accepted U.S. or European accounting principles. But there are no similar guidelines to follow when it comes to measuring or defining environmental issues or ethical concerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Called To Account | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...several key party scenes. But--alas! never fear!--like any movie featuring a song by Britney Spears--you already know the ending. We all know the ending. And that is the beauty of Drive Me Crazy, as of its ancestors, and without question, the many descendents sure to follow...

Author: By Deirdre Mask, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: TGIF + Britney Spears = Tiger Beat Heaven | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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