Word: bona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What we're trying to get away from is inflating the count," he says. Particularly on the Web it is "difficult to distinguish between bona fide groups and wayward individuals...
...such blatant discrimination be legal? The critical distinction that the courts have made is the idea of "bona fide occupational qualification." For example, directors can specify women to play women's parts in plays or movies, and positions as guards in high-security prisons can preclude women. Notes Doug Huron, a leading labor lawyer in Washington: "Courts have made very few exceptions in sex-discrimination cases, but the Hooters settlement would appear...
Mouse on Mars pulls off this complexity with an uncanny musicality. They aren't just standing behind synthesizers pushing buttons, but use electronics as bona fide instruments, not toys. The band is definitely at the wheel here-no computerized autopilot makes this album groove...
...many viewers, despite the "premiere" labeling.) "Fast Driver" parodies "Speed Racer" with results hysterical even for those unfamiliar with the original show's idiotic plotting, redundant dialogue and silly visual effects (here, the usual overhead view of a speedway's race line-up before start includes eight or nine bona fide cars, an airplane and an enormous spermatozoa). "Fast Driver" covers the anime-parody territory far better than "Booby Trap...
...union of Diana and Dodi would have culminated three decades of exhaustive and expensive attempts by the sixtyish Mohammed al Fayed to prove his British bona fides by collecting some of the nation's trophies. In addition to Harrods, he owns the famed humor magazine Punch, the Fulham Football Club and Balnagow castle in Scotland; his millions have sponsored the annual Royal Windsor Horse Show, where he has shared the royal box with the Queen. Al Fayed's younger brother Ali owns Turnbull & Asser, the prestigious tailor used by Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry. And al Fayed...