Word: allen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Debbie Allen, the Quayle family physician, told Time last Friday that Quayle is in excellent health. Yet she conceded that because he has had blood clots in the past, ``that would predispose him to getting blood clots in his leg again.'' Meanwhile, his medical problems further complicated his fund- raising problems. Says Quayle political adviser Mark Goodin: ``The hospitalizations put him behind the curve at a crucial moment when the other candidates were getting their organizations together and raising money...
...Quakers (7-0 Ivy, 15-3 overall) are led by lottery candidate Jerome Allen. Their only weakness is in the middle, but Harvard does not exactly posses a Phi Slamma Jamma Olajuwon-Micheaux-Young frontcourt...
...order to pull off the upset, Harvard will have to throw a wrench at the Allen-Matt Maloney Quaker backcourt. Maloney lit up Brown for 36 on February 4, and he and Allen form what some pundits have called the best two guard combination in the land...
...acclaimed "Hoop Dreams" for best documentary feature, a move that "had most people's jaws dropping" and cemented a trend in which prominent commercial documentaries have been overlooked. Also unexpected, Ressner says, were the best picture nod for "Shawshank," a "dank prison film with a unwieldy title," and Woody Allen's best director nomination for "Bullets Over Broadway." Says Ressner: "It seems as though it's a 'Welcome back Woody, all is forgiven' vote...
...overvalued peso any longer, let the currency float. Now Zedillo is taking the politically risky steps of slashing government spending and jacking up interest rates to slow the economy and wean it from its dependence on ``hot money''--foreign investments in securities that can easily be dumped. Says Allen Sinai, the chief economist for Lehman Bros.: ``Mexico must swallow a recession. If the government can hang in there and people can live through a year of austerity, the economy will be on its way. But it's going to be a real test of the country...