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Word: straight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is not just handing out Ritalin or Adderol," says TIME science writer Christine Gorman. "The medication needs to be monitored, and other studies show that medications are effective only when combined with some form of psychotherapy." So a pill alone still won't make your kid into a straight-A student - but it can help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feds Announce Cure for ADHD: Drugs | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

Sarah Johnson led the team in scoring for the second straight game, following her 18-point performance against Rhode Island on Wednesday with a 16-point game against the Mountaineers...

Author: By David R. De remer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Basketball Tops Mount St. Mary's | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

When he had patiently heard every last World War II remembrance and prescription-drug horror story, he boarded his bus, the Straight Talk Express, and reporters crowded around him like ants invited to a picnic. In most campaigns, a reporter has to grovel, scream or fake a nervous breakdown to get some chat time with a candidate. But all access, all the time has been McCain's way for years. Three senior campaign officials were squished against the bathroom door of his bus last week to leave seats open for print and TV crews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Lone Ranger | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...began life as a (possibly fictionalized) diary by its heroine and has since been a novel, a movie, a Broadway musical, a movie version of that musical and an animated feature. It is now back to being a straight movie--without songs, without the Small House of Uncle Thomas ballet (thank God), but with a lot of exotic spectacle and a rather murky colonial confrontation that gives Jodie Foster, playing Anna, a chance to behave like a slightly prissy but good-hearted 20th century liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The End of a Long Reign | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...first book, it became an instant best seller. Her audiotape narration even won a Grammy. And of course the title, It Takes a Village, entered the vernacular. The President wasn't quite so fortunate. When he wrote his first book in office, Between Hope and History, it went straight to the remainder bins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill's Block | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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