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Word: magnetizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adirondacks in New York. But it's a particular problem in Colorado's highest peaks--and especially the 54 mountains that top 14,000 ft. The Fourteeners, as they are affectionately known by locals (and a growing stack of outdoor magazines and travel guides), have become a magnet to upwardly mobile climbers sporting high-tech gear and checklists of the peaks they've bagged. More than 200,000 are expected to scale the Fourteeners this year, three times as many as a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peak Season | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...return a long-ago borrowed book to a Maryvale Precinct squad mate--a book on street survival, with a section on ambushes. And then he will ask his sergeant if he can be freed from radio calls to keep an eye on a west Phoenix dive that is a magnet for drug dealers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On The Beat | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...driving through strange neighborhoods, waiting at stoplights whose pauses I do not know, again I am struck by the absence of variance, of movement, of the spectrum I unknowingly came to treasure in my cosmopolitan childhood home. I am alone here. Always accused of being a magnet for disease, a walking accident, it occurs to me that I may have unconsciously picked up another malady...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Pennsylvania Homesick Blues | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...driving through strange neighborhoods, waiting at stoplights whose pauses I do not know, again I am struck by the absence of variance, of movement, of the spectrum I unknowingly came to treasure in my cosmopolitan childhood home. I am alone here. Always accused of being a magnet for disease, a walking accident, it occurs to me that I may have unconsciously picked up another malady...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: POSTCARD FROM HARRISBURG, PENN. | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...Since I made Phi Beta Kappa/got into the Advocate/have a boyfriend, you could have also if you wanted to," whereas structuralists tend to externalize unhappiness or failure and ignore the role of individual initiative, "Since I didn't get summa on my thesis/make it into the Spee/become a chick magnet, it is because thesis readers/final clubs/girls at Harvard are unfair/elitist/ugly...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

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