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Word: snubbings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Emmy snub this time -- she wasn't even nominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Apr. 11, 1994 | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...Quite frankly, the real problem will be keeping extraneous issues -- Somalia, human rights in China, Whitewater -- from affecting our response and getting us off track." Then an embattled Clinton might be prompted to try what former ambassador to Seoul Donald Gregg calls "compensatory toughness": setting deadlines the North will snub or making demands from which neither side can back down. Getting off track with North Korea could cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pyongyang's Dangerous Game | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...unified Harvard? One dean we can't snub...

Author: By G.k. Wenceslas, | Title: Intimations of Crimson Munificence | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...addition, Clinton should snub his lobbyist friends and stick it to them. He's asked for a tax on firms' use of lobbyists, and he should go farther--ensuring public disclosure of lobbyists' activities is a necessity...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Preying on Perotians | 4/30/1993 | See Source »

...simply hatched and wandered off to fend for themselves, he reasoned, the shells would simply be broken; the fact that they were thoroughly smashed convinced him that the babies stayed around to be cared for and fed. He also believes -- somewhat controversially -- that the babies' oversize eyes and snub noses would have appeared "cute" to their parents, the way the same characteristics do in humans, and thus inspired caring behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

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