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Word: stopped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lane road and pulls into a long driveway that leads to the biggest warehouse you've ever seen. The place is known as the Coffeyville Distribution Center, and Bezos (pronounced Bay-zos), who's never been here before, is giggling with excitement. He tells the driver to stop so he can snap a picture of a workman pounding a HELP WANTED sign into the turf. Bezos, 35, a meticulous documentarian, is worried that his life is scrolling by too fast to remember, a life that is so fantastic as to verge on the unbelievable. So he takes plenty of pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Chairman himself has been on a Long March for the past five years, and shows no signs of tiring. Bezos is pathologically happy and infectiously enthusiastic. Today's whistle-stop is typical. As usual he's smiling, shaking hands and shocking new employees with his distinctive laugh, a rapid honk that sounds like a flock of Canadian geese on nitrous oxide. He's an average-size man with thinning hair, warm brown eyes and a face that suggests Kevin Spacey with more than a hint of Frank Perdue. His uniform tends to be white or blue button-down shirts with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...However, though that could deter or foil terrorists who may have been planning to strike as the ball drops, it doesn't stop them from striking a mile or two down the road or in the same place on the following weekend. Thus the handicapping of the war on terrorism: The initiative is almost always in the hands of the bad guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America: A Nation on Full Alert | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...nice for people to stop saying that the Cleveland Browns' Orlando Brown had cause to attack a referee for throwing a flag in his eye in Sunday's game. I mean, Orlando, so what if he threw a flag in your eye. Big deal. You and your Browns get worse beatings from your opponents every Sunday...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Mindless Drivel for Your Holiday Fun | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

While Dunphy said he could not confirm which area restaurants were the source of the waste, a news release from the EPA reported that the DPW has asked each of the restaurants to stop the dumping...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Eateries Discovered as Polluters | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

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