Search Details

Word: setups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Washington that his convoy has been shot at, and he has held an official meeting with the K.L.A., which would infuriate Milosevic. Standing on the runway, Holbrooke phones State Department spokesman James Rubin, catching him just before the daily briefing. The meeting with K.L.A. rebels was a "complete setup," Holbrooke insists, not an official meeting. Sending a cable home, Holbrooke likens the entire province to "the Wild West." Either side could start a war, he adds, "through miscalculation or a drunken brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Impossible | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...pays to play it safe, though: before installing Windows 98, back up any sensitive files onto floppies. Elect to make an emergency start-up disk, which is a way to boot your system if all else fails. Also during setup you can save a copy of Windows 95. Do this in case you want to revert to your old operating system--a fallback if, say, your Win 98 disk is corrupted. Note, however, that the backup will consume 50 megabytes of space on your hard drive, which you'll want to reclaim later. (Windows 98 hogs 200 megabytes of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaner Windows | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

After they made revisions to the setup, the team went on to make a full year of one-hour shows, with each show composed of six serious "bits" and one muppet insert...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HOW THEY GOT TO... | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...press time, the Tuesday-Wednesday setup was still tentative, and even if Mother Nature obliges this time around, provisions may be required to accommodate the NCAA play-in that will follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mother Nature Delays Baseball Title Series | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...setting Thoreau might envy, but a setup that would appall him. For Julia Hill, the 24-year-old ecowarrior who goes by the nom de guerre Butterfly and now holds the U.S. record for the longest, highest tree-sit, life is anything but mellow. From the 180-ft.-high plywood platform where she has camped out since Dec. 10, she fields calls from a New York City radio station, a Little Rock newspaper and German television, which is sending a crew up from Los Angeles. "I have become one with this tree and with nature in a way I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julia Hill, Butterfly: Five Months At 180 Ft. | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Next