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Word: hideously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heavy price for all their hideous crimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PfoHo Ode | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...better guide than come-on advertisements. "Very intelligent people make poor decisions when choosing a physician for plastic surgery," says Dr. Tina Alster, a Washington dermatologist known as Dr. Fix It, who sees an average of two patients a week with laser-burn scars. "They believe all those hideous commercials." Finally, make sure the doctor is doing the work, not an aesthetician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetic Surgery: Light Makes Right | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...have a saying in the news business: three's a trend. It works something like this. If one tree falls, it was a bad tree; if two trees fall, well, the grass needed more light anyway. But if a third tree topples, stop the presses. There must be some hideous new insect at work, threatening the entire forest. And that's a story. So it is with a trio of recently published books, and I'm not making these names up: Dow 36,000 by James Glassman and Kevin Hassett, Dow 40,000 by David Elias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dow 1,000,000 | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

policy," he says. "But it's absolutely horrible from our point of view and it's a really hideous employment practice...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Takes Less than Casual Approach to Its Casual Labor Abuses | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

...morbidly obese Microsoft Office 2000 took 7 min. 40 sec. on the Dell but 6 min. 30 sec. on the Compaq. Starting up Word on both PCs was so fast (mere tenths of seconds) that I couldn't accurately record it on my stopwatch. Getting rid of that hideous animated paper-clip help guy, however, took way too long, though you can blame this on Microsoft, not chip speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racing Chips | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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