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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparently this crowd was lying in wait for Slate's goods...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEEING DOUBLE in the square | 5/19/1999 | See Source »

...Mass. Ave. CVS provides bins containing four different kinds of umbrellas and two varieties of Twizzlers as they wait to check out. These bins, regular fixtures of the Mass. Ave. store, are absent at the other location...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEEING DOUBLE in the square | 5/19/1999 | See Source »

...memory did the Fed actually raise rates following a bias shift in that direction." Of course, this walk-on-water economy of ours hasn't given Greenspan cause to raise rates in quite a while either; the fear is that that could change. Baumohl says Greenspan, as always, will wait and see. "Those price numbers were just the whiff of inflation," he says. "Raising rates now could have put the feeble Asian recovery in jeopardy." What keeps the markets happy is that the man on top has a discriminating nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fed Lets Inflation Off With a Warning | 5/18/1999 | See Source »

...wait until Day 40 to turn off the lights, especially when crippling the power grid also helps shut down the air defenses that threaten allied pilots? NATO officials say such sites--while on their target list from the war's first night--didn't win political approval until the recent NATO summit in Washington. Taking on such politically sensitive sites is fraught with peril for the allies: Belgrade ensures that the ruination caused by every misaimed bomb is televised worldwide, while the wholesale horrors wrought by Belgrade's paramilitaries in Kosovo are hidden from view. And while allied mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Military: Hits And Misses | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...which squeezes CD-quality music into files about one-tenth their original size while retaining most of the music's high fidelity. The standard is controversial because it allows people (kids, mostly) to swap music online--piracy, the record companies charge. Yet millions do it, despite the irritating download wait of 10 min. or so per song--an annoyance that will disappear when we all get high-speed Net access. MP3 phobia is so great among record companies that Universal Records, the biggest, bolted from the pack last week and announced that it will be backing a competing standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coinless JukeBox | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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