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Word: pounds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual suspects? For a terrorist bombing in Moscow, there may be too many to round up. Russian authorities confirmed Thursday that an overnight explosion that killed 23 people and injured more than 150 was caused by a 450-pound bomb, opening another round of speculation as to the identity of the perpetrators. Although a caller to the Interfax news agency claimed the attack was a "response to the bombing of villages in Chechnya and Dagestan," that?s unlikely to close the betting on the identity of the perpetrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bomb Suspects? Russia's Teeming With Them | 9/9/1999 | See Source »

...willingness to pound his chest, Randy is utterly unable to articulate his political purpose. Josh Anderson at least has a cause. He says he drifted to Straight Edge, and the hard-core, punk rock-like music that is part of the scene, after his mother was ostracized by the Mormon church for coming out as a lesbian. He listened to a band named Earth Crisis, read books on animal liberation and became a vegan. One night in 1996, he and some Straight Edge mates drove by a McDonald's still under construction. "We joked and said it would be neat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mutant Brady Bunch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...jacked up bean prices as much as $2 per lb. this month, following Starbucks, which raised its drink prices an average of 10[cents] in May. These chains cite tight supplies of labor and fancy coffees. Best advice is to scour the Web. Instead of paying $10 for a pound of Sumatra, buy two bags at CoffeeAM.com for $7.86 each and pay no shipping fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Aug. 30, 1999 | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...nothing has fundamentally changed at TheStreet.com We are a real business, still young, that has to pound it out day to day. We even had some good news in a recently announced, better-than-expected quarter, although the market scalding sure does take away from the achievements we feel the company has made. Worse, a Chinese wall keeps me from consoling the journalists who are seeing their riches decrease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Feels To Lose $150 Million | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...program in this century was that of Egypt's King Farouk. The King weighed around 300 lbs.; he looked like an immense, saturnine party balloon. Staples of the royal diet: a few tablespoons of caviar, lobster thermidor, slabs of roast lamb, a cubic meter or so of trifle, a pound of chocolate, a magnum of champagne. Workout: two or three dancers from the chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pox on Moderation | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

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