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Word: powerfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dark Wind, a heartbreaking, infuriating book, draws its narrative power from the reader's ambivalence about whether to weep with Chaplin or break his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captains Courageous | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

DIED. LANE KIRKLAND, 77, president of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995; of lung cancer; in Washington. As head of the federation, Kirkland fought to sustain the unions' waning power, in part by bringing renegades such as the U.A.W. and the Teamsters back into the fold. "All sinners belong in the church," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 23, 1999 | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...shouters at tables in the back of the restaurant, near the bathroom or kitchen, where they can sit alone and chatter, gesturing wildly, as if the party to whom they are speaking could see them. Later, after they get good and comfortable with their status as pariahs--instead of power guys--we simply designate all public places no-cell-phone areas. That way they'd have to stand outside, in the rain, with all the smokers who congregate like the bad kids once did in high school. Yeah, that's it: we'll treat them just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're Already Living in Cell Hell | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...North Korea a missile power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: Trigger-Happy | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...POWER WITHOUT HOARINESS Used to be that Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, elected at 46 and 43 respectively, were the young bucks among world leaders. But now the thirtysomethings are taking over. Four who recently made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth Movement | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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