Word: annually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arab-Israeli war 6 days Cher/Gregg Allman marriage 9 days Average space-shuttle flight 10 days Oxenberg/Evans marriage 12 days Barneys New York annual warehouse sale 12 days Shelf life of a professional pedicure 20 days Writing of On the Road 21 days Noncontested Tour de France 21 days Ernest Borgnine/Ethel Merman marriage 32 days Life-span of a fruit fly 70 days...
...Parents Television Council (PTC), a conservative watchdog group, has issued its annual report on the year's most (and least) offensive shows, which is always a fun read, filled with lots of dirty words. This year, the WB scored a unique double: Its "Dawson's Creek" was named the filthiest of PTC's "dirty dozen," while its squeaky-clean "7th Heaven" placed high on the group's "diamond dozen" list. "Creek" earned Most Objectionable honors with its Pacey-beds-his-teacher plotline...
...fast enough, the food got taken from them," the former nursing-home employee told TIME. She says she would falsify records to show that the residents had eaten everything on their plate. Things would improve for a while when state inspectors showed up for their predictably timed annual visit. "The attitude was to put a Band-Aid on it until the state left, and then it'd go right back to the way it was," she says. The inspector, who has been visiting California nursing homes for years, told TIME her complaints are regularly ignored because of the "cronyism" that...
...other developments in Viacom's vast empire, including the sell-off of most of book publisher Simon & Schuster for $4.6 billion, and a hot streak of hit movies, including Titanic. But it would not have been possible without the turn at Blockbuster, which contributes a third of Viacom's annual revenue...
...last week, when the granddaddy of all civil rights organizations met in Atlanta for its 89th annual convention, it was in its best shape since Roy Wilkins stepped down as executive director in the late 1970s. There's a surplus of $2 million. Membership has stabilized at 400,000. A bevy of impressive talents like youth director Jamal Bryant has joined the staff. And the N.A.A.C.P. has recovered the impatient, insistent but always dignified voice that made it the most important force in the fight against segregation. As the new chairman of the board, Julian Bond, 58, declared...