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Word: shun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year of its 3 1/2 years of existence. "But there were some huge opportunities" to expand even more rapidly, says co-founder Adeeb Shana'a, "and if we didn't move fast enough, we would lose the potential." Shana'a and co-founder Amit Desai had been determined to shun outside investment, but now they were ready to consider it, and they put out feelers to a venture-capital firm. The financiers offered an introduction to one of their client companies. That turned out to be Personify--somewhat to the shock of Anubis, which had been studying Personify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Little Companies Bulk Up | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Welfare professionals have a term for these persistent welfare cases: the hard to serve. Many have backgrounds that employers shun: weak education, illiteracy, drug and alcohol abuse, mental-health problems and criminal records. Often they also have logistical obstacles, like transportation and child-care difficulties. And, some argue, many of them have the toughest barrier of all: they don't want to do work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Still Be On Welfare? | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...girl I met at the Ice Cream Bash confirmed this hypothesis: "Harvard only uses Coke products," she complained. Yale, on the other hand, had Pepsi products. It was not political passion but simply an inflexible taste-preference that made her shun Coke. Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Trivial Truth | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...girl l met at the ice Cream Bash confirmed this hypothesis: "Harvard only uses Coke products," she complained. Yale, on the other hand, had Pepsi products. It. was not political passion but simply an inflexible taste-preference that made her shun Coke. Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIVIAL TRUTH | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...NATO cannot continue to harbor delusions about a war without casualties. If they choose to bomb a country they can't embrace bombing but shun ground warfare. If the U.S. is to fight it must immerse itself in warfare. Since it made the ominous step into battle, it must fight with the convictions and realism of a real...

Author: By Timothy E. Bazzle, | Title: War Means War in Kosovo | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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