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...Just before Christmas, Amos Yaron, director general of the Israeli Defense Ministry, visited the Pentagon with a wish list of cruise missiles, attack helicopters, surveillance planes and missile defense hardware that Israel says it needs to feel safe in giving up the Heights. U.S. generals choked when their calculators spit out the cost: $17 billion over 10 years. Then there's the billions Syria will demand for its sickly economy--a key motive behind Syrian President Hafez Assad's willingness to talk peace. "A deal this big is going to carry a price tag," admits State Department spokesman James Rubin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men At Work | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...high church of coffee, Starbucks, is prominently displaying this year's big acquisition: Tazo Teas. Ellen Lii, the owner of Ten Ren Tea in New York City's Chinatown, used to have an almost solely Asian clientele; now a third of her customers are non-Asians. "People used to spit it out and stick out their tongues," she says of those sampling her exotic teas. "Now they know the quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tea Time Once Again | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Okay, in reference to girls which do you prefer, spit or swallow...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Throwing a Curve Ball: FM Asks the U.C. Presidential Candidates Questions They Never Expected. | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...would certainly be a legitimate way to spend the year," he says. "But I don't know if the administration would chew that person up and spit him or her out, and then move on to the next person...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Politics Proves Seton-Redmond Undoing | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...best trick was probably the never-ending spit. He would take a long, long drink of water and spit a geyser that went on for at least a minute...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Where Have You Gone, Max Patkin? | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

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