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Word: lostness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand it, you've asked about my girth. I will be glad to answer that question, and the answer is, yes, I have lost some flab. Not only could I pass the standards of losing 7 lbs., I could have passed the standards of losing 15 unsightly ones. (O.K., I made this part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Lying...Low | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...jolt the market into a major sell-off. Internet stocks would be most vulnerable, but the damage could spread to other equities as well. If a stock bought on margin falls 30%, the stockbroker typically grabs the phone and utters the dread words "margin call." It means you've lost so much money on the stock you bought with borrowed funds that you have to dig into your own pocket to meet the margin requirement or dump stocks you already own to raise the money. If you don't, the broker can sell your securities--and will he ever!--without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Debt Defying | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...latest edition of Mikhail Baryshnikov's permanent floating modern-dance troupe teams the world's greatest living dancer with five talented women, none of whom get lost in his long shadow. Raquel Aedo shares center stage with her boss in a new pas de deux by Lucy Guerin, an Australian choreographer whose work first caught Baryshnikov's eye three years ago. The combination is potent: Soft Center is a laconic, coolly sensuous duet accompanied by a raspy electronic-music collage with a snippet of Paul Hindemith's mournful Trauermusik stuck in the middle (hence the title). Guerin is a major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Soft Center | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Colleague: Have you lost weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Lying...Low | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...Lost Souls (October 1999) Winona Ryder must convince a crime writer that he's part of a plot to help Satan walk the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satanwatch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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