Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RETIRED. STEFFI GRAF, 30, unflappable tennis star; following a series of injuries; in Heidelberg, Germany. During her 17-year career, Graf let loose her uniquely brutal forehand to win 22 Grand Slam singles titles and take home more than $20 million. Said the longtime No. 1: "I have nothing left to accomplish...
...this inventive "stream of consciousness," six-episode comedy. A thirtyish commitment-phobe takes a job teaching English in Japan and has three days to break up with his girlfriend, quit his job and sell everything he owns. But his friends, his family--even his stuff--are not ready to let him go before he harrowingly confronts every neurosis and shortcoming of his soon-to-be-former life, through the sometimes labored but often quite funny fantasy sequences in this mini-epic of indecision...
...phone actually rings while you're surfing away. If you choose to answer, you have seven seconds to take a message and get back to your e-mail. But what if the call is from a cute guy asking you out for a date? Then keep talking, and let the modem silently disconnect your online session. Phew...
...hike? Twice the hike? Rally? Sell-off? Stay out of it until Greenspan?s gospel (2:15 p.m.) is fully digested. For the record, the safe betting is on one quarter-point hike (come on, guys ? when was the last time the Fed raised a half-point?) and then let things be for the rest of 1999. But you knew that already ? we told you last week...
...Foundation, investigators say there were many gifts worth more than $1,000, including offers of scholarships to IOC family members. In fact, the discrepancies were so great that earlier this month the law firm that represented the city's Olympic committee asked Commerce if it could "amend" the report. Let's hope it is right this time...