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Word: like (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...averages. All the action in this year's market has been in stocks of the moment, those newly minted dotcoms or dotcom-related issues that seem to soar 30 and 40 points at a clip. There's only one problem with owning them. Call us old-fashioned, but we like to know more about stocks than their symbols and past trajectories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Market Rotisserie | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...like to know what the companies behind them do, what areas they are trying to dominate and what business cycles might hold them hostage. In short, we like to know as much about them as, say, the teams we pick each week in the pro-football Rotisserie League we fret so much about around the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Market Rotisserie | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Drinking moderately or not at all is of course your best bet for a problem-free New Year's Day. And we'll just assume you know better than to drink and drive. But if you do get plastered, be sure to quaff plenty of water, since alcohol acts like a diuretic, flushing fluids out of your system. A good rule of thumb is to drink a glass of water for every glass of wine or beer you have, and more for hard liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Party | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...wonderful things about Jesus' message is that it has come through 20 centuries undiminished by the stupid, disgusting commentaries of countless morons like Price. ROBERT MCMAHON Ocean Township...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

John Cloud's article on the after-effects of the Columbine shooting and the prevalence of "zero-tolerance" policies for campus violence was one-sided [NATION, Dec. 6]. Cloud makes it seem as though schools are suspending kids left and right for minor infractions, like having blue-dyed hair. I am an 18-year-old student in my last semester of high school, and I'm not alone in thinking that getting tough with kids and having a zero-tolerance rule for weapons and violent behavior are absolutely right. Maybe the youngsters who were singled out had prior records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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