Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Optima affair, with its whiff of a cover-up, raises many unsettling questions about what top executives knew, and when. Robinson, for instance, concedes that he wasn't made aware of the problems at Optima until a month or so ago, a point that raised eyebrows throughout the industry. Says a high- ranking executive at a rival credit-card company: "I heard rumors about Optima's losses a year ago. Something's wrong when competitors knew before American Express senior executives did. If James Robinson didn't know, he should have...
...glut has never been so thick. Povich, former host of A Current Affair, is just one of half a dozen newcomers elbowing their way into a field already crowded with such long-distance runners-off-at-the-mouth as Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jessy Raphael, Joan Rivers and the irrepressible Regis & Kathie Lee. Stand-up comic Jenny Jones' new daytime show started off with a bigger initial lineup of stations than any syndicated talk show in history. Montel Williams, a former naval-intelligence officer and motivational speaker, emcees an issue-oriented program currently being test- marketed...
Although only 250 of the 800 invited students attended the barbecue, the ones who came said they were impressed that another presidential event had been organized for them and said they enjoyed the affair...
...than a curling iron. Whenever Evangelista, 26, dyes her trademark bob -- and that's often -- it's news. The fashion world quivers as her hair goes from dark brown to platinum blond to Technicolor red. Campbell's life and loves are chronicled as much as her face; her reputed affair with Robert De Niro has become a staple of the celebrity gossip pages...
Four days later, the tragic Crown Heights affair escalated tensions between Blacks and Jews in New York and around the country. By now, the facts are well known: A Hasidic Jew killed a seven-year-old Black child in a traffic accident. Black rioters then killed a 29-year-old Hasidic Jew in retribution. The pogram deepened the hostility between the two groups, as Black crowds yelled that Hitler hadn't finished...