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Word: upping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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I'm turning into a truly shallow and pathetic person. The proof? Ask me to name the most important moment in my life this past year, and I answer without hesitation: getting high-speed access to the Internet at home. It happened two weeks ago, and I'm still faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blazing Modems | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

6 MONSTER.COM'S WHEN I GROW UP A good Sunday-football ad is about dread--over money (investments), mortality (insurance) and, here, going back to work on Monday morning. In the employment site's Super Bowl spot, straight-faced kids recited career "dreams" ("I want to be forced into early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Best Television Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

8 ELECTION Cold, driven, hilarious Reese Witherspoon cares far too much about a school election. Matthew Broderick, the teacher supervising it, goes into sexual overdrive as he tries to cope with her machinations. And director Alexander Payne makes a dark, smart, sexy farce about the American ways of winning, losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best Cinema of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Fortunately for parents, most kids build their lives around friendships and understand sharing in a way that many grownups have forgotten. The holidays are an ideal time for all of us to remember what we receive by giving--not just to friends and relatives but also to those less fortunate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy a Buffalo! | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

The Salvation Army welcomes donations into its seasonal kettles, but it also values volunteers. Two hours of your family's time ringing bells beside a red kettle could be the most rewarding trip to the mall you've ever made. If you don't know which charities are active in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy a Buffalo! | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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