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Word: instantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Relieve consumers from the nightmare of medical billing and insurance-claim $ forms. Clinton's plan envisions a world of instant electronic billing before the patient leaves the doctor's office. Consumers will spend less time listening to Muzak on the phone while waiting for someone at the insurance company to track down their reimbursement, while care providers and insurers will spend less time and money processing piles of claims and bills and other paperwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready to Operate | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...INSTANT ANTIQUES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bureaucratic Horror Show | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...Until several years ago, the best chance of finding instant felicity was to go to Japan, a society that polls still purport to be among the most satisfied on earth. A principal reason for such fulfillment no doubt lay in one of the country's most alluring tourist attractions: a remote railway depot on the northern island of Hokkaido called Koufuku Eki, or Happiness Station. There, travelers whose feet had strayed from the path to contentment could set themselves aright by reaching into their pockets, plunking down $2.10 and buying, literally, "a ticket to Happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Happy Nation | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...terms of his front-man history, Richards' "Eileen" resembles "Happy" (available on "Love You Live," live obviously) in its slightly repetitious lyrics and frequent, heart-felt groans and sighs. In his solo career, "Eileen" is the first credible, instant classic that Richards has produced. Though the Expensive Winos, his most recent band for solo efforts, aren't credited on this cover, it's safe to assume that some of the members are in on "How I Wish" at least...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Supersingle Shows Richards Hasn't Lost Energetic Touch | 8/20/1993 | See Source »

...life, but then you'd be stuck behind legions of losers trying to turn left. Somehow, those canny Cambridge traffic controllers never figured that turn arrows at intersections could save people a lot of aggravation. So you resign yourself to a slightly shorter ride in a continuous cloud of instant smog...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Don't Leave Home--If You're Not in a Tank | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

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