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Word: tellings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...countless studies showing the ill effects of tobacco on smokers and on those with whom they live, people continue to smoke. I will not now revert to your mother and rattle off the terrible things smoking does to your body. I am sure the smokers in the readership would tell me the problem is not ignorance; it's denial. It's just that smoking seems to ease out the wrinkles of the Harvard day and keeps things focused at the high-strung level of Harvard student performance...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: A Smoker's Day of Reckoning | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...student--me. Second to last student waves to me when he leaves. Can't tell if it's a wave of admiration or pity...

Author: By Jacob Rubin, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Absurdity in Annenberg | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...very well." The frenetic nature of the dining hall this year has also tired her out. "It's busy this year. We're busier, big time. You know that there's no interhouse in Adams? Well, every other dining hall gets bumped. The students like Lowell, too. They tell me." If anyone is prepared to deal with the pressure, it's Vicky. Her father worked at the Winthrop dining hall until 1988. She has worked at Harvard dining halls since she was twenty-one, and knows her job well. Vicky works from 10:45 to 7:45 p.m. five nights...

Author: By Timothy L. Warren, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: At Work, At Home With Vicky | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...responsive but confused audience of Wellesley College students then watched Gore and Jones tell tall tales of their childhood...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...term spending bills - quick fixes to keep the government up and running without a budget. Today, says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Matthew Cooper, Republicans are just happy to escape relatively unscathed, with or without a last-minute victory. "They're eager to go back to their constituents and tell them they've cut the budget," Cooper says. Never mind by how much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting the 'Budge' Back in 'Budget' | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

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