Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Formerly ranked No. 9 overall, a recent victory over third-ranked Marissa Irvin of Stanford last month bumped Dijilianova to her highest slot nationwide ever...
Playing toilet ball, like strumming a five-string guitar, must be its own reward. We do it because we love the feel of grass under our feet, the smell of lilac in the air. We play because we know that with only a month left until graduation, the marginal utility of an hour spent studying is less than that of an hour spent playing outside. We kick the tender two-ply tissue because it makes us laugh. We retrieve it from the bushes because somebody has to. We love it because somebody has to. We love it because...
...month or so ago I was sitting with a bunch of friends watching television when one of the trailers for "The Phantom Menace" came on. Four of the people in the group instantly began to strategize exactly how they were going to get tickets, comparing spoilers that they had heard about and throwing around quotes from the original trilogy. The rest of us were at a loss for words--"What exactly am I missing here?" somebody asked irritably...
...latest crisis, provoked by the firing of popular prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, ends the president's eight-month cease-fire with the Communist-controlled parliament and sets the stage for a fierce political battle as his second -- and supposedly final -- term in office draws to a close. The legislature's term expires in December, emboldening it to face down a president whose autocratic constitutional power includes the right to summarily dissolve parliament and call new elections. "For the Communists, it's convenient to have a confrontation with Yeltsin in which he dissolves the Duma," says Zarakhovich. "It will make them...
...flags. The Labor Department's Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.5 percent in April, up from March's rise of just 0.2 percent. And though retail sales for April rose only 0.1 percent, inflation hawks would have much preferred a drop -- considering that April was the ninth straight month that America's drunken-sailor consumers spent more than the month before. TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl says the gentle economic slowdown those hawks were hoping for hasn't materialized -- and real inflation worries are a ways down the road...