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Word: moment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand it, the swim meet was a pivotal moment," Ghani said. "Even in events in which we are not the best at, we still make a strong showing...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot Wins Fifth Straight Straus | 5/26/1999 | See Source »

...paradigm of the perfect economy, a place where a dismal scientist may even lay down his HP-19B calculator because analysis is superfluous in a land where supply and demand are calibrated, inflation is checked, growth steady, the workforce fully employed and the stock market bullish. For the moment, the U.S. may be that perfect economy, and that means the greatest challenge for Larry Summers, 44, the new nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, will be not to muck things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking The Handoff | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...turn, the Germans began to listen. The watershed moment came when the Yanks (with a little inside help) persuaded Schrempp in March to drop a long-standing bid to buy Japan's Nissan Motors. Schrempp wanted Nissan badly, to consolidate his empire, and he had been negotiating with an absolutely desperate Yoshikazu Hanawa, Nissan's chairman. But the Americans, who would have been saddled with turning Nissan around, had been uncomfortable with the plan from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Daimler-Benz-Chrysler: Worldwide Fender Blender | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...there may not in fact be a correlation between the tyranny of the instant, in our accelerated, data-filled information culture, and the longing for those graces that belong to a more spacious time. Perhaps people crave, and are demanding, a return to something deeper, or less of the moment. The surprise best seller of two years ago--a serious literary novel by a first timer, no less--was a retelling of The Odyssey in the culture of the Civil War (with a flavor directly taken from the Taoist hermits of old China). It was replaced by another debut novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fact, We're Dumbing Up | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...field-hockey scholarship, and still find myself trying to correct in others the mistakes I made in games 20 years ago.) We sit on lawn chairs yelling helpful instructions to our kids and their coaches. And at night we go to bed wondering if we can pinpoint the moment when we became our dads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Only a Game! | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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