Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second client, a three-year-old named Craig, supposedly has been scalded in hot water by his stepfather. Both would normally end up in a psychiatrist's office but the stepfather has a reputation to protect and vehemently denies the allegation. After all, he is the respected Dr. Banner of the pacific Northwest, who, ironically, specializes in anger control seminars...
...play therapy, Corder discovers all kinds of juicy information and ends up playing the role of the third-party-who-knows-a-deadly-secret-so-he-has-to -be- killed role. Now both Wilson's colleague and Dr. Banner posses the motive to kill Corder and they put pressure on the therapist to abandon his cases. Eventually Corder succumbs to their requests, but only after the killer attacks his daughter and then sets his house afire...
...couple of first-time home buyers to make their move, which allows the folks they've bought from to trade up, which lets those folks trade up -- and before you know it Century 21 and U-Haul are having banner years, furniture is being ordered, new alarm systems installed, tax revenues pick up . . . oh, happy day. Armageddon postponed...
...world of symbols. When the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the 11 former Soviet republics met in Minsk last week, delegations arrived in former Aeroflot airliners carrying the name of their states painted across the fuselage. As the leaders sat down to begin negotiating their future, the red Soviet banner was nowhere to be seen: the concrete-and-glass conference hall was bedecked with the multicolored flags of the 11 new nations...
...long ago, I noticed something unusual as I carried out my Twinkie-check ritual. Drake's Cakes, a kosher kid's chemical cake heaven, had a Twinkie clone on the rack. My heart skipped a beat, a tear came to my eye. I thought I heard the Star Spangled Banner playing off in the distance. I could finally complete the immigrant experience embarked upon by my great-grandfather so many years ago when he decided that he and his children after him were to be Americans. True Americans. The "Twinkie" would be the final piece in that puzzle...