Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admitted that he had shoved Reggie from the roof after an argument over a toy car. But the court found that the police hadn't made a necessary "extra effort" to explain to a seven-year-old what his rights were. Still, even if they had illustrated with a Barney doll and all four Teletubbies, he probably would not have understood. That's what being a child means...
...serve as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, John Conyers. But the decision to hire him for what could be the highest-profile legal-defense job in a generation was made in large part by Richard Gephardt, the House minority leader, and two other committee Democrats, Barney Frank and Howard Berman. The goal, say insiders, was to bring in someone capable of fighting a partisan war on a legal battlefield. "This situation doesn't call for a law-school dean, former-judge type," says a source familiar with the decision. "This could be a pretty scrappy fight...
...speak, we don't know what they do think--but kids plainly love Teletubbies. About 2 million people in Britain have watched it daily since its launch last year; it has been sold to 22 countries; and since premiering on PBS in April, it has swiftly landed alongside Barney and Sesame Street in the top five of the system's kids' shows...
Sprint isn't alone on the welfare-to-work bandwagon. Of the top 100 U.S. companies, 34 have programs, and 13 more are planning them. Executives of such blue chips as United Airlines and Salomon Smith Barney were at the White House this spring toasting President Clinton's one-year-old Welfare to Work Partnership and saying their welfare hires had better retention rates than workers found from other sources. Why the sudden success? There's the economy, which has made employers so desperate that some are hiring convicts to work in prison. And there's welfare reform, which...
SEPARATING. Massachusetts Congressman BARNEY FRANK, 58, and his partner of more than 10 years, HERB MOSES, 41, formerly an executive at the Federal National Mortgage Association...