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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When White House budget director Mitchell Daniels testified before the Senate Budget Committee this spring, he brought along a plump apple pie--an apt symbol for the government's bountiful budget surplus, then estimated at some $275 billion. But when Daniels appeared before the panel last week, his estimate of the spare cash fell as low as $160 billion. The committee's new Democratic chairman, Kent Conrad, served some baked goods too. He gave Daniels a modest pear tart with the words "shrinking surplus" inscribed in frosting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One That Got Away | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...score-with-someone-anyone-everyone" setup that drives Desperado. And Spy Kids is nothing if not a culmination of Rodriguez's starry-eyed fascination with slick, vivacious gadgetry, moving on from the guitar-case razzle-dazzle to electrically-charged bubble gum, satellite-dish wristwatches and, best of all, a plump, banana-yellow mini-submarine that becomes the center of a high-speed water chase...

Author: By William Gienapp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Milk on the Rocks, Please: Shaken, Not Stirred | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

PRODUCT Restylane, to plump lips and smooth out wrinkles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Collagen | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...latest in cosmetic wrinkle fillers is a synthetic form of the gel-like substance that gives skin its volume and tension. Injections help plump up lips and smooth out creased lines around the mouth. The effect lasts a few months--possibly longer than the current best seller, collagen. And unlike collagen, which is usually made from cow tissue and can cause allergic reactions, Restylane is relatively side effect-free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Collagen | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...black leather, from the points of her high-collared vest to the toes of her knee-high boots. He is all doughy hairy skin as he lies prostate on the dungeon floor, except for a tight, black patent-leather thong that squeezes rolling hills from his plump hips. She leans over the man's rump, rubs a furry cheek for aim, cocks her hand a good meter back and delivers a thunderclap wallop. Then she slings a high-heeled boot over his back and, straddling his haunches, spanks and rubs in rapid succession: hot sting, warm caress, hot sting again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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