Word: account
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first year, playing with Steve on the Islanders, Dominic learned a lot from his older brother, who was--by Dominic's account--the premier player in the league that year. The next year, Dominic switched teams to play for the Aurora Tigers...
...stole my life in a wallet," she said. Instead of going to a class Friday morning, Bencowitz canceled her debit card and opened a new bank account...
...characters still account for only about 2% of TV's roster, and with scant exceptions, we generally see a lone gay character associating largely with straights, viewing pals' sexcapades from the sidelines with what-fools-these-breeders-be amusement. But if nothing else, gay and straight characters show a new openness, sophistication and realism, sometimes with the help of consultants; GLAAD worked with McCormack to refine Will after the show's pilot. ("No gay man had hair like Will's, really long in the back," jokes Seomin. "He looked like Jerry Seinfeld.") Certainly much of the biting banter...
...mortuaries charge. But the Net has its limits--you'll still need help getting into that casket. Undertakers have tried to recoup dollars lost to cut-rate casket sellers by raising their service fees, up 9.6% over the past two years, to an average of $1,182. These fees account for about a fourth of the typical funeral's cost, which has nearly tripled in the past 20 years...
Jonathan is what is known as a VTS kid, or voluntary transfer student. In the early 1970s, under a court-ordered desegregation plan, Webster opened its doors to youngsters from the inner city. Today black students account for about a quarter of the 1,300-plus student body, with 161 of them, or 12%, bused in from the city...