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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite obvious to all of us that of all the very qualified outside candidates, none of them approached his combination of abilities, skills and character that we thought we really need," Cox said. "He's the kind of person who combines the skills and intellectual competence you expect in a university with hands on experience...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hehir Named Divinity School Head | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...quite obvious to all of us that of all the very qualified outside candidates, none of them approached his combination of abilities, skills and character that we thought we really need," Cox said. "He's the kind of person who combines the skills and intellectual competence you expect in a university with hands on experience...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hehir Named New Divinity School Head | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...retrospect, it seems obvious that a policy as doughy as "Don?t ask, don?t tell" would have some implementation nightmares. And while the Pentagon isn?t ready to give up on the compromise policy issued by President Clinton in 1994, it?s coming out with a new set of guidelines that it hopes will make the feckless policy a little less hard for soldiers, gay and straight, to live with. The main complaint: Soldiers who complained to superiors about gay-bashing - soldiers who may or may not have actually been homosexual - often found themselves targets of investigations into their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pentagon Questions 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

Sure. Especially since they are the best-looking people on display in Runaway Bride, a movie that takes its good-natured time explaining Maggie's curious behavior and balancing it against Ike's less obvious failures (he has an intimacy problem, naturally). That time is for the most part cheerfully spent, however, as he arrives in town hoping to witness her bolt from the altar for a fourth time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Altar Egos | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Hint #2: Everyday I encounter hordes of families in identical T-shirts and the unending flow of boy scouts in identical badges and uniforms. These are the obvious examples, but demonstrate another key tourist watching principle. Tourists tend to dress similarly to the people they are with. Matching clothing is always a dead giveaway...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, | Title: A Native's Guide to Tourist-Watching | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

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