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Word: necks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1995, after a heady decade of 15%-to-20% annual sales growth, Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay began to falter. Gallo's Turning Leaf, priced at $6, was cheaper than Kendall-Jackson's $10 bottle; but its packaging, from the flanged top, visible cork and thin, cigar-band neck wrapper down to its multicolored grape leaf, was strikingly similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUR GRAPES | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...able to simulate it. In studies of women with spinal cord injuries, the professors discovered an alternate pathway through which the sensation of an orgasm is sent to the brain. Through the vagus nerve, sensation can travel directly from the cervix, through the abdomen and chest cavity, into the neck and to the brain stem, bypassing the spinal column. That surprising discovery led to the isolation of a chemical called vasoactive intestinal peptide, which Professor Barry Komisaruk says is the neurotransmitter, or nervous system chemical messenger, in the body that causes the orgasm sensation in the brain. Komisaruk mentioned that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Men? | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Harvard, ranked 29th nationally, expected the contest to be a neck-in-neck clash of two regional powers, as the 72nd-ranked Eagles (6-4) boasted a solid record against other Ivy teams and featured heavily-recruited transfer Barbara Prevail, a former junior doubles partner of new world No. 1 Martina Hingis. The Crimson's star sophomore Ivy Wang was forced to take on the mysterious phenom...

Author: By Lev F. Gerlovin, | Title: Women's Tennis Dominates Eagles | 4/4/1997 | See Source »

...Copeland had sued Rice for defamation and libel, Rice had reportedly tossed gold-colored rubber rats out of her midnight-black limo during the Mardi Gras Eve parade, and Copeland had ridden on a float with a stake holstered to his waist and a ring of garlic around his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ORLEANS: THE VAMPIRE STRIKES BACK | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Copeland's publicist said she contacted two vampire experts, who said that if Rice left Lestat at the building that is now the restaurant, he may still be there. Copeland says he isn't a believer. "But if I end up with two marks in my neck, you'll know what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ORLEANS: THE VAMPIRE STRIKES BACK | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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