Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who hadnot heard of the affair, was similarly concerned...
...Secretary Henry Cisneros agreed to pay his former mistress $49,000 to settle her lawsuit accusing him of reneging on a promise to support her financially after their breakup. Linda Medlar, who had a two-year affair with Cisneros when he was mayor of San Antonio in the late 1980s, had claimed he bailed out of an agreement to pay her $4,000 a month. Cisneros had freely admitted to the affair, but he now faces an independent counsel probe into whether he lied to FBI agents before his HUD confirmation about past payments to Medlar...
Suddenly, an investigation that had imperiled Murdoch's ownership of his Fox network -- a probe he once dubbed a "witch-hunt" -- had become a family affair. And the five commissioners did nothing to change the mood, voting unanimously to endorse a resolution that could soon free Murdoch to resume terrorizing the established American networks, as he has done for the past two years. "It was a kiss on the cheek for Murdoch," says an influential Washington communications lawyer...
...purpose then--but that was 92 years ago. Today, such a program is ludicrous, especially since the end of a Cold War that never led to open conflict. What, then, will be the point of teaching people how to fire rifles? Army officials describe this program as a recreational affair that hones people's skills of operating weapons safely, effectively and peacefully. But weapons are weapons, and the only thing weapons can do is to kill. How can they be used peacefully...
Even though yesterday's contest at Boston College was essentially meaningless for the Harvard baseball team, you can be sure it was an affair the Crimson circled on its calender far in advance. Harvard...