Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their supporting roles in the affair, Gerald Ronson, the chairman of Heron International, a multinational real estate and service-station empire, was sentenced to a year in jail and a $9.7 million fine, while stockbroker Anthony Parnes drew a 2 1/2-year term. A fourth defendant, financier Sir Jack Lyons, will be sentenced later this month. Unlike Boesky, Saunders will no longer have millions when he emerges from prison: before sentencing, he was forced to apply for the British equivalent of welfare to survive...
...critical of Baghdad. Gorbachev, who cut his August vacation short to deal with his country's economic problems, publicly lambasted Saddam's "perfidy and blatant violation of international law." What's more, Soviet officials reportedly gave visiting Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saadoun Hammadi a dressing down over the hostage affair. But Moscow is not keen to see a military solution -- which the U.S. would clearly dominate -- rule out a diplomatic one, for which the Soviets might be key. Aside from Hammadi, Moscow has played host to Saudi special envoy Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, and has dispatched diplomats to Iraq...
...reputation as being pretty blunt. You characterized the Republican report on the Iran-contra affair as "pathetic," for example...
Welcome aboard Marriage Flight 1990, and fasten your seat belts: it's going to be a bumpy ride. Today's typical marriage is a dual-career affair. That means two sets of job demands, two paychecks, two egos -- and a multitude of competing claims on both spouses' time, attention and energy. The two-job flight path is marked by demands for fairness and parity that require some mobility, a dose of originality and a high degree of flexibility...
Gittes' haunting memories are revived while working on a case for the film's other Jake, real estate developer Jake Berman (Harvey Keitel). Gittes is hired to procure evidence to prove that Berman's wife, Kitty (Meg Tilly) is having an affair. Gittes taps a motel room and arranges to have Berman confront his wife in bed with her lover...