Word: used
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Olga and Ed also had a "problem" when they exchanged with a couple in Missouri who had neglected to get new license plates on their Mitsubishi, and the Bowes were stopped by the police almost as soon as they took it out of the driveway. "We can't use this car!" they called their home to complain. "Oh, sorry," said their swappers. "Just use the car in the garage--the white Jaguar...
...James Ingraham and his wife Pennie of Washington Township, N.J., bought their first share on St. Martin, where they love the beaches and the local culture, then bought another at the new Manhattan Club in New York City, which they use as an outpost for trips to take in theater, restaurants, Japanese spas and night life. As James puts it, "The bottom line is that we enjoy time-share vacations because you can bask like a rich person for a small window of time...
Last week the ache was unmistakable--and even touching--but the 300 media types watching in the press room at Dartmouth were, to use the appropriate technical term, totally grossed out by it. Whenever Gore came on too strong, the room erupted in a collective jeer, like a gang of 15-year-old Heathers cutting down some hapless nerd...
...flowers and expensive prints hanging on the walls. For a suite on its second floor, the U.S. State Department pays more than $200 a sq. ft. annually, according to documents obtained by TIME--double what most empty modern office space in London costs. Iraqi opposition leaders are supposed to use the lavish accommodations Washington has provided to plot Saddam's overthrow, but most say they stay away. For them, Cavendish Square is an embarrassing example of how the other front in this war with Saddam has become an extravagant charade...
...neighbors, however, have concluded that Washington is not serious about getting rid of him, so they have begun rearranging their foreign policies to live with him and are pressing for the economic sanctions to be lifted. Most Arab governments refuse to deal with Chalabi or allow him to use their countries as staging areas for any guerrilla force he might assemble. Jordan has convicted him in absentia on banking-fraud charges. (Chalabi says the allegations were trumped up.) Though the loyalty of many divisions in Saddam's 400,000-man armed forces is questionable, U.S. intelligence believes that enough...