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Word: punctual (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mayor, the governor, or whoever, they have full control over that state. I think in the future what we maybe have to do is come together and be more like a congress in a sense and elect one president to operate and veto or get vetoed. You become more punctual that way - all minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Mitchell Diggs, a.k.a. Divine | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...sprinkle in a few, and list your hobbies as boccie playing and fine-tuning your grandma's lasagna recipe. Or maybe, in order to reassure voters that you're harmless because culturally you're already Swiss, you could list your hobbies as eating heavy food, reminding others to be punctual and responding to attempts at humor by frowning and saying, "Is that meant to be funny, or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get Elected as a Citizen | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...April 15 deadline (this year pushed back in most states to April 17). Yet, although the mayhem of tax day seems to belie the facts, data complied by Syracuse University Researches indicates that those lines are probably getting shorter--and it's not because taxpayers are becoming any more punctual. Congressional defunding of the IRS' auditing budget, combined with a dwindling staff and a series of complex new regulations enacted by the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 have led to decreases in auditing and less enforcement of penalties for delinquent taxpayers. It's a cheater's dream come...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Taxing the Best Work of the IRS | 4/19/2000 | See Source »

...STATS] Unreal. Extremely punctual; won't do tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Proof Of Evolution | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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