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Word: ring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to construct means of prevention and safety that will avoid tragedy," he said. "We're not happy waiting for the phone to ring, waiting for the next tragedy to happen...

Author: By Lisa N. Brennan-jobs, | Title: Epps' Letter Cites Growing Dangers In Final Clubs | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

...pornography got something else when they tried to download pictures from three U.S. websites: hundreds of dollars in phone charges to a former Soviet republic. The Federal Trade Commission shut down the scam, charging three people and two companies in New York state with false and deceptive advertising. The ring allegedly lured Web surfers to its sites with the promise of free erotic pictures. Those who wanted to see the photographs first had to download special software that, once installed, surreptitiously hijacked the computer's modem. The program disconnected the users from their Internet provider and silently dialed a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: XXX Pictures, XXL Phone Bill | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

...Hoster, charged that McKinney had sexually harassed her. McKinney serves in one of the Army's most revered posts and is supposed to be the role model and champion of the service's 410,000 enlisted men and women. His office is situated in the Pentagon's prestigious E-Ring, right across the hall from General Dennis Reimer, the four-star Army Chief of Staff. The Army denied the charges on McKinney's behalf, and has no plans to dump his video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SERGEANTS AT ODDS | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

Someone called him the Elvis of sport because he was a crossover pioneer, sexy and gorgeous, who forced the public to rethink its view of his form of entertainment. But there was more to Muhammad Ali than his amazing cunning in the ring; more than his reputation as the most charming showboater in boxing history, with an impish rhyming wit that had the power of both butterfly and bee. As Spike Lee says of Ali in the enthralling new documentary When We Were Kings, "He fused politics and sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: LONG LIVE THE KING | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

Kesang Yangdon helped ring in Losar, the Tibetan New Year, at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center on Saturday...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Tibetans Ring in New Year | 2/12/1997 | See Source »

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