Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing or two!). She recharges an old romance with a fabulously wealthy financier. She eludes the entire Nassau County police department. And, oh, yes, she catches the killer. Isaacs' heroines are never the usual trophy wives (she can't make a silk purse out of a Coach bag); instead they are a prize greater than rubies. In the fight against women with skinny thighs and no love handles, they always win (hence the fantasy quality of Isaacs' fiction). Accents from Queens and Brooklyn may flavor their speech, but they are aristocrats to their wisecracking bones, and woe to the Richies...
...Imagine this Leave It to Beaver update, circa 1997: after Wally and the Beaver rip through a few games of Return of Sonic the Hedgehog, after June finishes her home shopping and after Ward checks the closing stock quotes, they all settle down for the evening with a big bag of Fritos Lite and order up Home Alone...
...taken many of the secrets of Enimont to the grave. Nor will they get much help from the other major party to the scheme, Gabriele Cagliari, the former head of Italy's huge energy conglomerate ENI. Just three days before Gardini's death, Cagliari chose to tie a plastic bag over his head with a shoelace before telling investigators all he knew. Prosecutors believe that Gardini and his associates were responsible for the falsification of company books and sophisticated financial fraud, besides the payment of millions in bribes...
...Tucker slumps on the clinic sofa eating a bag of salted nuts when a nurse hands him his latest piece of hate mail -- "No one has to kill you. You are already dead," it reads. To get home to Birmingham, Tucker must drive 250 miles that night...
...energy that is very refreshing," says Debara Thornton-Klein of the human- resources department for all Time Inc. magazines. "It's infectious." In return the students receive a little money and a lot of experience. Since each works at only one magazine, we gather them at regular brown-bag lunches so they learn about the company's various publications. Most are entering their senior year of college and have experience on campus publications...