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Word: surely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken its toll. I have come to hate this life and this system of things. I have come to have no hope ... The fears of the father are transferred to the son. It was from my father to me and from me to my son... I'm sure the details don't matter. There is no excuse, no good reason I am sure no one will understand. If they could I wouldn't want them to... You should kill me if you can." He took care of that himself, but not before arming himself with 200 rounds of ammo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...just about anybody would have done the same thing in his shoes... We never really got along that well after he came back... All of a sudden Steve was getting all these gifts, getting all this clothing, getting all this attention. I guess I was jealous. I'm sure I was... I was the oldest and all that. Then all of a sudden it's gone. I got put on the back burner, you might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shade Of His Brother | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...knows for sure why pennies are disappearing. A big factor, though, clearly is people's low regard for the things. Few carry them to spend or are willing to lug heavy sacks to the bank. James Benfield of the Coin Coalition, a lobby group for eliminating the penny, figures that 25% of annual penny production ends up in landfills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Penny Saved... | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...foreign countries. Three and four get rounded to five; one and two get rounded to zero. Even Einstein would be hard-pressed to defeat that system. You round at the end, not item by item, and you wouldn't round at all if paying by check or credit card. Sure, Dunkin' Donuts could price a cup of coffee at 98[cents] and round up. But two cups would cost $1.96, which means rounding down. And what makes you think retailers don't already charge as much as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Penny Saved... | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...when my test computer arrived, I was pleasantly surprised that the blinking ads that filled the bottom and right side of my screen hardly bothered me. Sure, they reduced the usable area of the screen to the size of a large laptop's, but I barely noticed them. There was still plenty of room left to browse websites and use the included word-processing software. What's more, when I had trouble getting online, I got through to tech support in just 3 min. And since I'm not a gamer, I wasn't worried that my new PC lacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tempting Deal | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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