Word: took
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Their plan--coupling a prescription for political settlement with threats of military action if the deal fails--took firm shape, officials told TIME, when the Administration privately decided after the Serb massacre of ethnic Albanians at Racak on Jan. 15 that G.I.s would have to be deployed as peacekeepers. With that decision in her purse, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sped through Europe last week, pushing the allies into an ultimatum that essentially orders Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic to sign an agreement on autonomy with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians within three weeks. If he doesn't, NATO formally warned...
...reporters for TIME, Dorion stayed late on Fridays, arrived early on Saturdays and could be counted on the rest of the week to dole out assignments, advice and M&M's. Her efficiency and omniscience lent order to an often chaotic office. "Marta was involved in every step we took each week, from the reporting to transmitting pages to the plants. We're holding our breath to see if we'll get out our next issue," says managing editor Walter Isaacson. "I had a great run," says Dorion. "I've been exhausted, thrilled and cranky, but never bored...
...lived in the jazz age, just as Dylan and Jimi Hendrix were among the rulers of the age of rock, it could be argued that we are living in the age of hip-hop. "Rock is old," says Russell Simmons, head of the hip-hop label Def Jam, which took in nearly $200 million in 1998. "It's old people's s____. The creative people who are great, who are talking about youth culture in a way that makes sense, happen to be rappers...
...finally it's looking good Hip-hop took it to billions I knew we would. --Nas, We Will Survive
...YEAR? By now everyone knows that the title notwithstanding, this designation is not the equivalent of a good-citizen award. Yeah, right. We took one look at the Bill Clinton-Ken Starr double billing on the Dec. 28-Jan. 4 cover, and we knew what we were in for. Sure enough, of the 1,431 letters we received, 881 begged us to "make a New Year's resolution: give more thought to 1999's decision." One disappointed reader suggested we should have changed the title to Jerks of the Year...