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...asking for U.S. aid because their cities have been leveled and their people killed. "Yeah, that's basically what we wanted to do to you. That's why they call it a f-----' " Kinison suspects that the Allies finished the war in six days because they wanted to skip town "before Bob Hope comes back with another cavalcade of loser has-been stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kinison Is Back. Aaaaaaaaaagh! | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...couple of quick tips for avoiding total failure: 1) Lecture. Skip it. It's faster to read the material; you'll never drag yourself out of bed anyway. 2) Assignments. Just do the big ones. Call beforehand to get an extension. Make up any old excuse. 3) Section. Go. Even if you haven't done the reading, even if you don't have the two papers you've said were done for months, go. As long as the TF knows your face s/he will never fail you; most of them have hearts. 4) Cram, and remember: these are the best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's in the crispitos? | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...cutting costs. "George Fisher is not just coming in to chop heads," says Michael Geran, an analyst at Pershing & Co. "He's a builder, not a destroyer. He's coming in to reinvent and re-energize the company." That's a challenge his successor at Motorola can gratefully skip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Builder, Not a Slasher | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...cost that convinced me to skip it. Seth said that for around $40 I could get a small tattoo. I didn't really have $40 to blow on something like this. I thought about using the Fifteen Minutes budget--$40--but then decided that wasn't fair because then there wouldn't be any money left for June to get a tattoo. (She had never expressed a desire to get one, but you can never assume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This was the deal: | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...there a way to skip surgery and still avoid dentures? A small group of American researchers thinks so, at least in some cases. They are experimenting with several different techniques designed to control the disease-causing bacteria with drugs instead of knives. Such therapies are already used in some European countries, and advocates question why the Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved the treatments for general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Way to Escape The Dentist's Knife? | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

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