Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...photo with the candidate. It's hard to know what angst he's experiencing inside, but the President is at least making a good show of being ready to step aside and take on "spouse of" status. "He eased right in to being the No. 2 person, an opening act, not the headliner," said Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. "And he looked more relaxed and happy than I've ever seen...
...people start to realize what's going on, more and more of them are wondering if any part of their personal lives is off-limits. That's one reason the FCC is objecting so loudly. As part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the FCC established strict "opt-in" privacy provisions, under which a consumer has to give his consent before his calling data can be made part of marketing campaigns for additional services or products. Not surprisingly, the telcos and other businesses prefer the "opt-out" approach, which costs less and bears more fruit. It gives companies the right...
...agent when they found him in his hotel room shortly before 9 a.m. local time. The amazing thing is that it took this long. For a meticulous man who had constructed what an investigator described as "one of the greatest scams successfully perpetrated in history," Frankel didn't act like someone who had put much thought into avoiding capture. Authorities say he spent several months in Europe as a not-too-bright fugitive, dining out in public and continuing to phone friends and business associates while on the run. Still, until Saturday he had managed to stay just ahead...
...cave, not to show their weakness. A kid who is proud of herself does not present a very tempting target to a bully. Your kid might not be lucky enough to have a phalanx of older sisters protecting her in the hallway, as I did, but she should always act...
...begin with the word cremaster. The cremaster muscle pulls the testicles up into the body and is an indicator in the fetus of male gender. Everything in the "Cremaster" series swirls dizzily from there: for him, biological destiny is a prison. Escape from it is a heroic act--in fact, a spiritual right. Thus his transmogrified, half-human creatures elsewhere; his fixation on Houdini, the impossibly malleable escape artist; and now his Gilmore, who spent the better part of his adult life in prison, only to be released into the world, where he killed and was executed...