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Word: tediousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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After five years, no one really wants to hear about Iran-Contra anymore. They view special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's ongoing investigation as a tedious waste of tax dollars...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Eight Easy Steps | 10/2/1991 | See Source »

...worry. This is not another tedious, anti-liberal diatribe from a disgruntled, conservative Crimson writer. It is, rather, a complaint by a practicing Muslim at Harvard--who simply happens to be a dis-gruntled, conservative Crimson writer...

Author: By Bader A. El-jeaan, | Title: Islamically Incorrect | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

...room of one's own if she is to write fiction." It is around this ungrammatical but vivid observation that A Room of One's Own, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book of the same name, is based. This play is a witty, thoughtful but often tedious reworking of the book...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Wit and Tedium in Woolf's Room | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

...Institute first gained national prominence when Caruba issued a press release claiming that the annually tedious Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade was in fact a 10-year-old videotape. Good clean...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Are You Bored? I'm Bored. | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Bank-fraud cases are usually dry, tedious affairs. Not this one. Nothing in the history of modern financial scandals rivals the unfolding saga of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, the $20 billion rogue empire that regulators in 62 countries shut down early this month in a stunning global sweep. Never has a single scandal involved so much money, so many nations or so many prominent people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: B.C.C.I.: The Dirtiest Bank of All | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

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