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Word: neither (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patrol, Masino sees a car inching along suspiciously, and then suddenly the car speeds up and darts out of sight into a parking lot. Masino finds it, approaches cautiously and sees the driver and a passenger drinking beer. Neither speaks English, and Masino knows only a little Spanish. With TIME translating, we find out the driver has no license, no registration and no keys. He started the car with a screwdriver. When he finds out he's under arrest, he makes a brief move on Masino, then thinks better of it. The passenger's hands, meanwhile, drop down under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On The Beat | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Faced with the unpleasant choice between acquiescing to ethnic cleansing and paying in American blood to stop it, Bill Clinton characteristically chose "neither"--and characteristically seems to have lucked out. No doubt this is annoying to political opponents and unfriendly commentators who thought they had him in a checkmate. In their annoyance, the critics should at least keep in mind that their country lucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fifth Columnists of Kosovo | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...need a prenuptial agreement? Most do not, and it's a thorny issue to raise for no reason. But consider one if there are kids outside your marriage, you own a business or you have significantly more wealth than your partner. Love knows no bounds. And neither does a good divorce lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prenup Audit | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Similarly, neither drug is likely to help women who have inherited the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, since they are least likely of all to develop estrogen-sensitive tumors. Nor is there any guarantee that raloxifene's effects are long lasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double Duty | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...lyrics will have faded from memory and nobody's life will be any different because of it. I can't really say it affects me that much; it only annoys me. It's a nice, but ineffectual attempt to fix and forget, and it helps us do neither. There is a difference between correcting serious errors in tradition and killing harmless reminders...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, | Title: What's in a Song? | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

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