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Word: mugged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life," says Lori Horne, who was an avid swapper before she bought the Intervac network 10 years ago. But intimacy can cut both ways. While your guests have their feet up on your ottoman, gazing at the photographs of your children, sipping coffee from your "World's Greatest Dad" mug, you may be frantically calling home to ask why their washing machine keeps spinning your clothes but never wets them. (They have thoughtfully left the instructions out, but they're in Dutch.) The thought of strangers in your home doing Lord knows what to your fine furniture and china...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Swapping | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...under 18." The warning reflects the suggestiveness of the half-clothed models, and perhaps refers in large part to one photo of a topless girl. Above the label on the cover, an Abercrombie-outfitted, buff young man stares through thick black-rimmed glasses, looking decidedly misunderstood sipping from a mug advertising a budget travel agency. The reader is left to his or her own devices to assume that, after spending hundreds of dollars on his sweatshirt and vest, the poor young man was forced to cut a few corners while backpacking through Europe...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shopping with Prof. Schor | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

Number one on the "to not do" list is droning. Slide presentations are a formality. Students attend the presentations to speak with representatives, greet old friends, gather pamphlets, and maybe to leave with a new mug. Short presentations will make a better impression than long ones; chances are that students will tune out after the fourth pie chart...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, A | Title: Sidebar: Rating the Recruiting Process | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...spend the rest of the day picking them off my dirty flannel shirt. At night, I'd like nothing better than to throw some logs on the fire, turn on a football game and sit back with The New York Times and a plastic New York Giants-sponsored mug of apple cider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: How To: Cross a Street | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...business man. His plans include world distribution for film, DVD and pay-per-view, and world domination in general. Both the Classic Animation Festival and the Sick and Twisted now run in over 50 cities. This might not be your cup of tea, but it might be your mug of truck-stop-quality coffee...

Author: By Dunia Dickey and Jennifer Paniza, S | Title: Cinemanic: More Sick, More Twisted | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

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