Word: barre
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roseanne Barr, domestic goddess, pulled off the interstate not long ago into a huge swath of suburbia 40 miles east of Los Angeles. She was heading for California's top tourist attraction: not Disneyland, not the nearby stock-car track, but an expanse of concrete and steel splayed across 2 million sq. ft. of desert called Ontario Mills. It's the latest fashion in malls, boasting two tyrannosaurian movieplexes totaling 54 screens, as well as glitzy entertainment and retail hot spots like Off Rodeo Drive that sell designer duds at hoi polloi prices. Roseanne sat down for a bite...
...author of the bill. "I've never heard of a man killing his spouse with an F-16," he says. "That borders on the goofy." But that was an unwitting legacy of Republican lawmakers. In a ploy that backfired, gun-rights supporters, led by G.O.P. Representative Bob Barr of Georgia, quietly removed the exemption for the military and the police that had always been part of federal gun-control laws. The lawmakers apparently hoped the prospect of disarming G.I.s and cops would force Congress to kill the measure. That didn't happen, and the measure was passed during the gargantuan...
That blockage sent a layer of sewage and other fluids into pipes in the crawl space underneath the kitchen area. When plumbers arrived to alleviate the blockage, "it was so far backed up...that some of the sewage came out," said Keith Pryor, a project manager for Barr and Barr Builders, the contractors who renovated the house's kitchen and serving area over the summer...
Even congressional critics like Grassley say they think Freeh can "rehabilitate" himself and the agency. His colleague in the House, archconservative Republican Bob Barr of Georgia, has already given the FBI a lesson in that. Last year the agency asked for the authority to apply multiphone roving wiretaps so it could track suspects switching from cell phone to cell phone. But Barr, with heavy backing from both the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, now had ammunition to block the legislation. "My view is that we are not interested in giving the FBI more power until...
...party activities. All the same, most donors would admit that, no matter what channel their cash flowed through, they gave to elect Clinton or Dole. But Reno could trigger the independent-counsel statute by finding a conflict of interest that prevented her department from investigating the matter. William Barr, Attorney General under George Bush and a past critic of the statute, argues that "the primary issue is whether this is the kind of case that can be handled as business as usual." As most would agree, it has already gone well beyond that...