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Word: stream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diplomat. He not only gets away with being direct, but people like him for it. "Many people in the State Department are quietly subversive about policies they don't like but obsequious to their elders and betters," says a longtime colleague. But Eagleburger has swum against that stream: never talking out of school, but glad to raise his voice within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comfortable In His Own Ample Skin: LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

Seinfeld episodes are loosely structured, with the anecdotal, stream-of- consciousness style of monologue material. One entire show last season was set in a parking garage, as Jerry and his friends searched for their car. In another, Jerry got friendly with ex-New York Mets star Keith Hernandez; the show spun a hilarious comic essay on hero worship and male bonding. "He wants me to help him move!" cries Jerry after one phone call. "I said yes, but I don't feel right about it. I mean, I hardly know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian On The Make | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...BOTTOM LINE: Her new set is like a house by a cool Southern stream: a grand place to spend the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting There The Hard Way | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

There is evidence that the Reagan Administration knew early on about B.C.C.I.'s criminal activities. Dr. Norman Bailey, a former member of the staff of the National Security Council, has told TIME that in 1982, the NSC began receiving a stream of intelligence reports detailing the bank's arms trafficking, drug involvement, support of terrorists and role in the transfer of U.S. technological secrets to countries such as Pakistan and the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riyadh Connection | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

Coming the other way, legally, a half-mile-long column of oil tankers stream beneath a giant portrait of Saddam that marks an archway over the desert border. Each day they bring 50,000 bbl. of cut-rate fuel to Amman to sustain the stumbling economy of Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Keep On Trucking | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

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