Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move quickly: These prices are only the starting point; actual tabs could run quite a bit higher. Members of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee expect 10 percent of the first tickets made public to be auctioned off online. And who is looking out for the downtrodden members of the International Olympic Committee? Organizers are quick to assure the press that members of the IOC will be asked to pay for their own tickets. ?They?ll probably say no,? SLOC president Mitt Romney said at a press conference Thursday. ?But there?s no harm in asking.? Romney shouldn?t feel...
...gets down to business, and Detmer gets distracted by the age-old conundrum: Why are the Browns? uniforms so darn ugly? Bernie will be there, but he?ll be too far away from the action to do the Browns much good, as the Steelers finish with a comfortable 10-point lead...
...might accept a "ticking bomb" argument in specific cases, such exceptions would be made only after the perpetrators had been brought to trial. "This is an extremely emotional issue for Israel," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "On the one hand, many feel the country has reached a point where it can address such issues and become a proper democracy; others believe that the rights of future terror victims are more important than those of suspected terrorists...
...CASTELLI'S death is an exclamation point that ends an era. In 1958 I walked into 4 East 77th Street, New York City. A slight man in his 40s was hanging paintings in a 23-ft. by 24-ft. room. This room became the showcase for a number of young, bold American artists. I, a former billboard painter, was one of them. Leo brought an Old World appreciation, but an understanding of the American spirit, to New York City and the world. In the late '50s and '60s, with his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, he discovered Rauschenberg, Johns, Stella, Lichtenstein...
...financial commitments. Though prospective borrowers are happy enough to do their research by computer, just 21% of folks polled for the 1999 Fannie Mae National Housing Survey said they would definitely or probably try financing a new home over the Internet. That's an increase of only 1 percentage point over three years ago. This year, Forrester Research projects, the Internet will account for only 1.5%, or $19 billion, of new mortgage loans. --Megan Rutherford...