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Word: tomming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, not quite. California wouldn't be California without someone like state senator Tom Hayden, the aging radical, pointing out that Silicon Valley zillionaires make in 15 minutes on the stock market what they pay their housekeepers in a year. The problem with Democrats moving to the center, says Hayden, is that the equity issue is off the radar screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gray Davis: The Most Fearless Governor in America | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...America for the first time, and it changed him. "I was really offended by the notion that this war was being fought largely by minorities and Southern whites," he said. Three years later, the whitest man in America was finance director for the mayoral campaign of a black man--Tom Bradley of Los Angeles. His next job was chief of staff for Jerry Brown, and Davis says he knew then that he wanted to be Governor. His mother traces the ambition back a little further, saying that at 11, Davis wrote a proclamation honoring his parents' anniversary and signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gray Davis: The Most Fearless Governor in America | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...trouble with bots that get sold to big corporations, not surprisingly, is that they tend to get a little compromised. In junglee's case, the ability to compare prices at other book sites seems to have disappeared. Type in Tom Clancy in Amazon's All Product Search, and there's no danger of your buying Rainbow Six from Barnes and Noble or Borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bot Till You Drop | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...kissed this boy, Tom Sullivan. He was just really nice. We used to go into the bushes and kiss. It was just a nice little relationship--very sweet. I could sort of boss him around, so I was like the leader. We were just really good friends and we liked to kiss...

Author: By Adriana Martinez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Molly Shannon: Finally a Superstar | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...brain cancer theory," he says - but that?s almost beside the point. Has a cigarette-style war over America?s favorite new toy finally begun? "There is no evidence whatsoever that a wireless phone has ever caused ignition or explosion at a gas station anywhere in the world," scoffed Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, in a written statement. But to DeWitt, that might as well have come from the CEO of Philip Morris. "We know these guys lie," he says. So judge the risks of connectivity yourself - keeping in mind that the cellular honchos issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Told You Not to Call Me at the Pump | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

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