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Word: tip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against Big Tobacco, brought by the forces of what might be called Big Health, in the name of a widow whose poor slob of a husband smoked himself to death. The tobacco cartel has won every such suit up to this one, but now the odds are beginning to tip. This is why the novel's companies have set up an eight-figure war chest with a private cia of thugs and slinkers to administer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE RUNAWAY PLOT LINE | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

Madonna: I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADONNA: I AM A TIP-TOP STARLET | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

Blikk: There is much interest in you from this geographic region, so I must ask this final questions: How many Hungarian men have you dated in bed? Are they No. 1? How are they comparing to Argentine men, who are famous for being tip-top as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADONNA: I AM A TIP-TOP STARLET | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...period in my life," he butted heads with liberal faculty members at several universities before successfully running for Congress in 1984 as a political amateur against a popular incumbent. After a rocky start (he tried bunking in the House gym to save money until he was ejected by Speaker Tip O'Neill), Armey first showed talent as a legislator in 1987 when he won bipartisan support for a bill establishing an independent commission to recommend military bases for closing. He rose so rapidly through his party's ranks that after the 1994 elections, he ran unopposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: FISHING FOR CONVERTS | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...Also in December, Egyptian security officials uncovered a conspiracy by the extremist group Islamic Jihad to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak. Based on interrogations, which may have included torture, Egyptian authorities are now investigating an informant's tip that bin Laden helped fund the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OSAMA BIN LADEN: THE PALADIN OF JIHAD | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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