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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...went overboard in 1998 saying that system was about to collapse," he said confidently. "If it were to collapse next year, it wouldn't be that prediction...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soros, Sachs Discuss Globalization | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...victim is extremely publicity-adverse," Riley said, "and so we are willing to go overboard to protect her. We are seriously constrained in the information we can give...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Police Identify Suspect in Sexual Assault | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...with Gilmore even if it isn't the second coming of Little House on the Prairie. "Would I have been happier if some of the language wasn't there?" asks co-founder Andrea Alstrup, vice president for advertising at Johnson & Johnson. "Probably. But I don't think it went overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Postnuclear Explosion | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...with "Gilmore," even if it isn't the second coming of "Little House on the Prairie." "Would I have been happier if some of the language wasn't there?" asks co-founder Andrea Alstrup, vice president for advertising at Johnson & Johnson. "Probably. But I don't think it went overboard. We have to be realistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Post-Nuclear Explosion | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...took a friend out sailing off Hyannis on one of the family boats. The friend did not know how to sail. The wind died. Lunchtime approached. Old Joe Kennedy was a tyrant about punctuality. Bobby, who was worrying that they could not make it ashore in time, simply dove overboard and swam for home. His friend drifted and flapped about helplessly until rescued by a passing boat. Good thing it was a nice day. Bobby never apologized. He was not a boy at the time, but 22 years old, headed for law school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great What-If | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

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