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Word: longer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since people are living longer, the poplulation profile has evened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...like bungee jumping or indulgences such as an extra piece of chocolate-mousse cake. But for James McDermott, 48, the former chief executive of the New York City investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, that recklessness led to the arms of an adult-video actress and then to the even longer arms of the law. The banker was charged last week with insider trading for allegedly tipping off Kathryn Gannon, 30, better known as Marylin Star, to a series of impending bank mergers. According to federal prosecutors, the Canadian-born actress traded six times on this information and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Deep Throat | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth's rotation. However, the tiny fraction of a second you gained would be more than offset by eating airline meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Relativity | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...billion years ago, they would all have been on top of one another and their density would have been infinite. According to the general theory, this Big Bang was the beginning of the universe and of time itself. So maybe Einstein deserves to be the person of a longer period than just the past 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Relativity | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...provincial, that it could be open to Europe and, especially, to such Venetian masters as Titian. Titian had made masterpieces for Philip II of Spain; now Velazquez would work on the same scale for Philip IV, grandson of Titian's patron. With Velazquez at the court, Spain no longer needed to import its talent from abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spain's Conquistador | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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