Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government's policy towards alcoholic beverages has been consistently inadapted, reaching peaks of idiocy with the prohibition and continuing today with age restrictions. I can only hope that one day the United States will have the maturity to follow the example of countries with no enforced drinking age. --Julian Allen...
Associate Professor of Neurology S. Allen Counter Jr., director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, called Undergraduate Interfaith Forum, reminded the audience to "look to the tensions" among different groups in society...
...chairman Robert E. Allen, in an interview with TIME, voices much the same thought. Employment at AT&T, he remarks, "used to be a lifelong commitment on the employee's part and on our part. But our people now realize that the contract [the implied promise of lifetime job security in exchange for hard work and loyalty] does not exist anymore...
...only one of the three companies into which the parent is being split that will sell new stock, in addition to distributing shares to present AT&T stockholders. An initial public offering of as much as $3 billion, which might be the biggest ever, is planned for late March. Allen concedes that "there is some pressure from the ipo to get things right and look further ahead than we might have." But he insists that the layoffs are being driven by unavoidable business changes...
...huge cast of good actors, James Woods stands out as steely Bob Haldeman, and Joan Allen suggests in deft brush strokes a Pat Nixon condemned to stand by her ungiving man. Hopkins, though, is a failure. He finds neither the timber of Nixon's plummy baritone, with its wonderfully false attempts at intimacy, nor the stature of a career climber who, with raw hands, scaled the mountain and was still not high or big enough...