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Word: surely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reached--by phone, handwritten note or e-mail. Many schools are setting up websites with e-mail and voice mail to facilitate communication between parents and teachers. Parents should use them not only to flag problems but also to praise a particularly inspiring lesson or assignment. Parents should make sure the teacher knows how she can reach them and should make her feel welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bully or Grovel? | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Your article on the potential for genetically manipulating humans has left me wondering if scientists have been doing it for years. I am sure Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is the product of splicing the tail gene of a humpback whale onto the foot gene of a human. PETER CHARTER Durban, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Plenty of bigger companies can probably sympathize. E-commerce is hard, and it's tough to know for sure if it's for you. But with total retail e-commerce sales nearly tripling, from $2.7 billion to $7.9 billion for the 12-month period ending in June, everybody from your broker to the corner grocer to the guy who sold you that recliner you're sitting on is paying attention to the online biz, no matter what the aggravation. And whether they're working for an aggressive Net start-up, a brick-and-mortar retailer who fears getting "Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales From The E-Commerce Front | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...group. But soon the relationship deepened. Schlant had to be tutored in basketball and still was often found in the stands more focused on her books than his play. Some might have been offended, but "he found it reassuring," says Schlant, speaking English with a German accent. "He was sure I was there for his person, not his history or status." And so both found something the other needed when they married in 1974: the divorce got a hunky, younger second husband who loved to listen to her literary lectures; the hoopster got a wife whose erudition and command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Importance of Being Ernestine | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...troops in New England. Gore officials say Bradley is already offering a variety of targets, including an embrace of gay rights that could backfire on that community, his vote for a school-voucher experiment and what they say is his mixed record on campaign-finance reform. More jabs are sure to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Gore's Campaign Went Off the Rails | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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