Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican plan is heavily oriented toward consumption and growth, the Democrats' toward savings and debt reduction--not quite what one would expect from the past history of the parties...
...sheltering the auto pact, after last month's World Trade Organization interim ruling that they discriminated against Japanese and other automakers. While Ottawa ponders whether to appeal the ruling, doomsayers are predicting the end of the "sweetheart" tariff holiday that they claim has underwritten Great Lakes prosperity for the past three decades. But the tariff ruling is probably irrelevant...
...noodgey and menschlike" Jewish psychologist. The racial stereotyping annoyed Levinson ("Nobody would say Mel Gibson was playing a Catholic industrialist in Ransom"), but it also got him thinking about his youth again. Rather than fume, he sat down and wrote for three straight weeks, imagining characters from his past talking about race, religion and class. "It wasn't writing," he says. "It was dictation...
...away with this because of our enduring millennial uneasiness. We still can't be sure what will happen to our computer-assisted jets, nuclear power plants and electricity-supply lines at the moment '99 rolls over into '00. A flurry of bug- fixing and Y2K-readiness reports over the past year seems to have lulled most of us into a what-me-worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms of two-digit years...
...PAST DISPATCHES He's in the Army Now. Well, Almost... Sgt. Bilko Was Much More Fun Than These Guys Hey! These Sweat Suits Aren't Camouflaged! Yes, Sergeant ? It Is Night and I Am Jogging These Boots Weren't Made for Marching Learning to Swallow the Big D ? Discipline