Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lippo Group, an Indonesian conglomerate whose owners were long friendly with the President, until he read it in the newspaper late last year. Two months later Clinton conceded he had been aware as early as 1994 that such key political supporters as Texas businessmen Truman Arnold and Bernard Rapoport had given work to Hubbell, though he couldn't quite recall who told him. Now Clinton says Bowles and McLarty "were trying to help him for no other reason than just out of human compassion...
...weight of the snow that remained in the trees was too much for some branches to support, according to Bernard K. Keohan, manager of grounds in the Facilities Maintenance Department...
...social survey Heaven: A History, Colleen McDannell and Bernard Lang observe that over two millenniums human conceptions of heaven tended to alternate between God-centered visions and more humanist arrangements focused primarily on the reunion and interactions of the sainted dead. Medieval heaven, approached intellectually by the Scholastics or passionately by the mystical school of love, expanded St. Augustine's idea of the Beatific Vision, the saints' rapturous and direct communion with God. The Renaissance Catholic heaven more resembled an ongoing human-to-human celebration presided over by the Virgin Mary. But Protestant reformers of the 1500s reinstated a vision...
...situation of most exiles in America in the late 1930s and '40s. Two dachshunds meet on the palisade in Santa Monica, California, and schmooze about their fortunes. "Here, it's true, I'm a dachshund," says one to the other. "But in the old country I was a Saint Bernard...
...term savings: after reporting a $76.4 million loss for the fourth quarter of 1996, the utility barely broke even for the year, reporting net income of $1.8 million, down from $282.4 million in 1995. With Northeast stock trading at about $12 a share--half its 1995 level--company chairman Bernard Fox has decided to retire. Kenyon, who was forced to negotiate a $314 million line of credit for the company last fall, admits Northeast could go bankrupt early next year if it doesn't get at least one plant running by then. "I don't know exactly where the cliff...