Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine that the chirpy pop singers New Kids on the Block (now defunct) were all pretty, young British women. Hold that rather perverted idea and you've got the Spice Girls, an all-female pop-vocal quintet out of London. Their debut CD, Spice, has topped the charts in Britain and captured audiences in France, Italy, Japan, Australia and almost every other country where there are young girls and young boys who like looking at young girls...
...trouble, allowed Brown to make a late run, cutting the lead to six with 2:12 to play-the game never got closer than five. Tim Hill hit all four of his late free throws, and reserve center Bill Ewing came on to play solid post defense, including a block, to secure...
...foot the bill for a program the federal government controls. The governors have plenty of experience with that sort of federal tactic. Last year, state and local governments picked up 42 percent of the $159 billion Medicaid bill. Governors, including Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas, favor block grants that leave it to the states to set eligibility and care standards, similar to the approach spelled out in last year's welfare reform. Clinton now argues that block grants would be a demolition of the national social safety net. TIME's John Dickerson says that the governors' outcry...
Since the stumbling block to appreciating this film is perhaps all too clear, a review of the film's finer qualities is perhaps in order: the war stuff. If nothing else, director Richard Attenborough has captured the spirit of grand old heroism through images of wartime Italy. The screen fills now with ranks charging across the fetid trenches, now with peaceful shots of classical architecture, eloquently summing up the destruction of innocence by the ravages...
...massive kickbacks and abusing his position in government. Zardari had earned the nickname "Mr. 40 Percent," the sum he reportedly demanded of potential business contacts, after being acquitted of the same charge several times in the past. Bhutto had been battling desperately to retain her office by threatening to block the general elections, scheduled for February 3. The justices ruled 6-1 against Bhutto after hearing convincing evidence of the former prime minister's corruption, phone-tapping, and a series of extrajudicial killings. Bhutto had also been accused of backing police hit squads in attacks against the Mohajir Qami Movement...