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Word: messing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...camp still only half believes the polls -- both the national ones that mostly give them a double- digit lead and their own state surveys that show them clearly ahead in such G.O.P. bastions as Florida, North Carolina and Kentucky. But along with success has come a cautious reluctance to mess with a winning formula. Nothing angers the Clinton cadre like the charge that they are sitting on their lead. "In the past few weeks, we've gone before the American Legion and the National Guard," says a Clinton insider. "If you saw what we did in Salt Lake City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Countdown Mentality | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...crisis to demand that the country never return to the monetary system and that it get on with the job of reviving the British economy. Sir Alan Walters, onetime personal economic adviser to then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, quickly declared that the "government has made a howling mess of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Currency | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...current issues in the negotiations wereapparent from the new sings held by union membersreading, "Don't mess with progression,' and"Progression equals progress...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Union Stages Rally in Yard | 9/25/1992 | See Source »

...marriage might be saved by having children, admits, "I'm begging to have a baby that I don't even want." And when he falls for a wily coed (Juliette Lewis), he frets, "I feel myself becoming infatuated with a 20- year-old . . . I'm sleepwalking into a mess." At these moments the masks of fiction drop and seem to reveal two naked, anguished souls: the "real" Woody and Mia of late notoriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleepwalking Into a Mess | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...could hear it, all right," she says. Fearing legal complications, Diaz-Parton stopped accepting such invitations three years ago but argues, "Society looks at being jumped out as something barbaric. To me it's not out of line. Hey, if you're in a fraternity, don't they mess with you? Only with gangs they take it a step further. That way you leave with dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Way Out | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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