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Word: topness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...top seed of the tournament is Santa Clara, followed by Virginia and Florida...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Claims Ivy Crown | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...problem with simply discarding hope for an on-the-ground insurgency is that the in-the-air war is expensive and, top commanders will sometimes admit, ineffective. Almost every day at Incirlik is Groundhog Day, as in Bill Murray's 1993 film. "You wake up, you come in, you get ready to launch the aircraft, you launch the aircraft, they come back, you recover them, you go home," says Staff Sergeant George Palo, who maintains aircraft fuel systems. "We don't have a lot of calendars around here, because the only day that counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firing Blanks | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Rubin brings to Citi stature that is bound to attract top clients. Known to occasionally stroll around Treasury in stocking feet, Rubin has a low-key informality that could work wonders in Citi's sharp-elbowed executive suite. In the Clinton Administration, Rubin dominated internal policy debates on matters ranging from estate taxes to relations with China because of his strength as a cautious consensus builder, not in spite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving to the Big Citi | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...from his home in Orlando, Fla., eager to scout a site in Dallas that might be used for his fledgling golf-course-design business. Then on to Houston for the Tour Championship, a prestigious, season-crowning showdown among an elite field of the year's Top 30 money winners. Buoyed by a religious faith to which his young children had led him, Stewart, 42, was happier than friends had ever seen him. And thanks largely to a June victory at the U.S. Open, he was having the best year of his golfing career. Wouldn't it be great, he confided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On Autopilot | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...ticket." That first meeting produced a working title, All for One, and the notion that the questions would be based on pop culture. As Clark puts it, "You don't have to be a walking encyclopedia to win." And the show would trump Millionaire by offering a $2.5 million top payoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A $2 Million Question | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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