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Word: screwing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Titan safety Julio Fernandez said after the game, "These guys have heart." Playing football for free may sound romantic, but players who supply their own jockstraps and hold down day jobs must have an unyielding determination to crack the bigs, an undying love for the game, or a screw loose. Or all three...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Welcome to the Minor Leagues | 7/17/1990 | See Source »

...Turn of the Screw, May 3-5 and 10-12 at Dunster House. Director Caroline Chaffin's adaptation of Henry James' classic ghost story of two children possessed by their governess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upcoming Theater Productions at Harvard This Spring | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

...didn't do anything wrong," Kay Council, 48, testified. "We just got caught up in the middle of a big IRS screw-up." She said she sold their house, paid lawyers $70,000 to take on the IRS and "was cheated of growing old with the man I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: The Ultimate Penalty | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

Suddenly, the credit-travel enticement had turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare of mistaken identities, computer screw-ups and human errors, all spilling out of the vast and powerful credit-reporting system that tries to keep tabs on $720 billion in total U.S. consumer debt. But this was not just one person's bad dream. While the credit industry claims that errors are discovered in fewer than 0.5% of individual credit records, some analysts believe glitches are more common. According to a study by James Williams of Consolidated Information Services, a New Jersey credit bureau, 40% of the 150 million people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, Your Card Is No Good | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...Lawton's script sweats bullets to prove that these two are lovable folks with much to teach each other in matters of class and conscience. But Edward has them pegged: "We both screw people for money." So does this movie. A ticket to Pretty Woman buys you mechanical titillation and predictable twists. Is Vivian thrown out of a snooty Rodeo Drive boutique? Count the minutes (which seem like hours) before she sails back with Edward and the store's clerks are toadying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sinderella | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

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