Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having an advanced degree, of course, is no bar to updating your skills. Take the case of Eva Wisnik, 35, a New York City career strategist and executive recruiter, who found that a special one-week $875 program in Fairfax, Va., on administering a career-assessment test was more valuable to her than her M.B.A., which cost $20,000 and took four years to complete on a part-time basis. "I have earned at least $45,000 from administering this test to about 900 people over the past few years," she reports. "This is far more than any actual earnings...
...Kimeses may be the biggest mother-and-son crime team since Ma Barker and her boys swore off bank robbing. The Oklahoma-born Sante, 63, has a rap sheet stretching back to the 1960s. Among her more exotic crimes: stealing a $6,500 fur at a Washington piano bar and enslaving illegal Mexican immigrants to work as maids. Kenneth has been convicted of robbery and assault. Mother and son are jointly accused of using a worthless check to buy their $14,000 Lincoln Town Car--the charge for which they are now locked up in a New York jail. They...
...bar has to have a signature event," Rod is saying as he serves up drinks at the Rock Creek Lodge, a joint that has billiard tables, slot machines and a 5-ft.-tall wooden bull. It is the kind of place where you might expect to see Harry Dean Stanton in an argument with Marjoe Gortner over an eight-ball combination, a knife fight breaks out, and no one remembers either the assailants or the victims as quiet and normal. "I don't care if it's maggot races," Lincoln says. "You have to have something...
...many flaws of the production still remain at large. For example, in the afore-mentioned bar scene of the song "Gaston," a difficult dance involving steins and the praising of beer is performed. One would think that, for all the child-directed points of this musical, that the scene would not include so much...well, beer. In addition, though the stein dance is obviously intricate and difficult, it pales in comparison to the other tricks of the musical, and becomes disappointingly boring. Also, the menagerie that is "Be Our Guest" is done in true all-out Disney fashion--the plates...
...Paris, the competition cannot be avoided,for all street vendors sell soccer souvenirs whileit appears that every cafe and bar in the citybroadcasts the games...