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Word: sierras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Queen of the noirs. Don't get me started on Gene Tierney. 8. Cool Hand Luke (1967). It is impossible to see this movie too many times. And if you are the right kind of person, it will make you want to go to jail. 9. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1981). Bogey and Walter Huston get out in the sun for a real psychological gripper. 10. Citizen Kane (1940). I know, I know, it's number one -- just trying to mix things up a little around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gathering of Potatoes | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...support for charter schools, his vow to revive the city's moribund downtown and his "zero tolerance" of crime. "I want people to feel safer," he says. "That's key to people moving here and staying here." Brown has visited nearly 100 neighborhood groups and won endorsements from the Sierra Club to the United Farm Workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smaller Pond: Jerry Brown is back with a downsized ambition | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Other prominent movies include Laurence Olivier's epic retelling of Hamlet and the combined father-son duo of John and Walter Huston in Treasure of the Sierra Madre...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: Timeline 1947-1948 | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...vessels overseas to avoid paying federal taxes, although most of these companies' revenues come from American passengers. You should also have reported how much money the industry contributes to Congress to keep the status quo. It seems American taxpayers are the steerage passengers on these new Titanics. ALVIN LOPEZ Sierra Madre, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 1, 1998 | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

While the U.S. last week loudly protested a wave of atrocities sweeping the war-torn African nation of Sierra Leone, questions arose about whether enough had been done to support the United Nations arms embargo that was imposed last October and that the U.S. backed. Did the State Department ignore a clandestine delivery by a group of British mercenaries of nearly 40 tons of high-powered weapons to the diamond-rich nation? Both British Foreign Secretary ROBIN COOK and State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN deny knowledge of the shipment. But a well-informed U.S. official tells TIME that word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gun Running | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

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