Word: amanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from there on, things started to go bad. Cruz, the captain and star jumper, went down with pulled ligaments in her ankle. Then, trying to compensate for a stress fracture in one leg, sophomore Amanda Williams pulled a ligament. And then, the team heard word that standout freshman distance runner Karen Goetze would be unable to perform in the meet, the victim of a stress fracture...
...time McCarthy was 58 and unknown outside a small mob of readers, quite a few of them critics, English professors or writers, who thought he was God. Being God didn't pay spit, though, and after five books and 30 years, McCarthy had his first agent, Amanda Urban, and a new editor, Gary Fisketjon, two of publishing's more glamorous figures. They impressed upon him the idea that a little publicity never hurt. "It was very simple," Fisketjon remembers. "He had no interest in it." They leaned on him. "He said, 'If you start making exceptions . . . ' He said, finally...
...second week of May saw the nation spellbound by the President's agonized dithering over a Supreme Court nominee, a development for which there wasn't really a Melrose Place equivalent -- unless you count Jake's ping-ponging between sexy, bitchy Amanda and not-as-sexy, pregnant Jo. But get this: Clinton, his writers even more shameless than Aaron Spelling's, was torn between three possible candidates, though the President betrayed a misunderstanding of basic genre requirements in that none of his picks looked good in a halter top (still, some people admit to finding Bruce Babbitt cute...
...Amanda J. Weinstein '96 said, "It is going to cost me 80 to 100 dollars" to ship everything home...
...course, rising rates have also led some buyers to rush into the market while they can still afford a home. Outside Atlanta, Jim and Amanda Arnold bought a two-story house last month instead of waiting until August as they had intended. "The Fed took the indecision out of home buying," says Jim, who runs a valet-parking service and had to borrow to make the down payment earlier than planned...