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Word: fourths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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GEORGE W. BUSH Mixes Slovenia and Slovakia in fourth foreign-land gaffe. Georgia borders...Albania? Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 5, 1999 | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...fourth draft of a note to the plumber about replacing an old cast-iron wastewater line with polyvinyl-chloride pipe. After a fairly straightforward preamble, it veers off into a six-page symbolist idyll about a lake and a passenger-less rowboat "drifting away in errant eddies like a strange and mute child." It's really quite beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Avoid Salinger Syndrome | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...problem stems from Hemingway's apparent uncertainty about where he wanted his story to go. Early on, some Mau Mau rebels who have escaped from jail pose a potential threat to the Hemingway encampment, but they abruptly vanish from the narrative. Another plot line involves Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, and her fierce determination to shoot a particular lion before Christmas Day. "He's my lion," she says, sounding uncomfortably like a contestant in a Bad Hemingway writing contest, "and I love him and respect him and I have to kill him." She does so about halfway through the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where's Papa? | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

Nobody foresees a continuation of the phenomenal 1998 rise in gross domestic product--a sizzling 6% annual rate in the fourth quarter, 3.9% for the year. But Cohen, true to her reputation as Wall Street's leading optimist, thinks the U.S. is in a "virtuous cycle" that will keep spinning, if a bit more slowly. The U.S., she notes, has created a stunning 15.5 million jobs since the end of 1993, even after subtracting job losses due to corporate downsizing. And two-thirds of these jobs pay more than the median wage for all U.S. jobs. By no coincidence, average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Board Of Economists: Wall Street's Ghostbusters | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

WHAT HE SAID THEN In his first and second campaigns, he promised to serve just three terms. By his third (and fourth), he had changed his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Then And Now: Jun. 28, 1999 | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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