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Word: jigged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jig is up. In cooperation with an investigation into its admissions practices, Harvard turned over a wealth of applicant records to the Department of Education, which used the data to determine that Harvard had not discriminated illegally against Asian-Americans. But in the process, the Ed. Department found that Harvard's treatment of Asian-Americans, though it did not constitute illegal discrimination, did contradict Harvard's own stated policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cat is Out of the Bag | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...gauging whether foreign spies are eavesdropping on his corporate clients. In one scheme, he instructs his client to transmit a fake cable informing its European office of a price increase. If the client's competitor in that country boosts its price to the level mentioned in the cable, the jig is up. "You just spoof 'em," Courtney says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Friends Become Moles | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...condition. As his attitude brightened, an important change took place inside his body: an increase in the activity of his "natural killer cells," a crucial link in the immune system. By year's end, though he still had cancer, Donald was able to dance a jig for his group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Can The Mind Help Cure Disease? | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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