Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well, [Wilson] watched this all very seriously, with everyone surreptitiously watching to see how he would react to the obvious teasing about all the money he was getting to study the desperately poor," says Skocpol. "And then, suddenly, just as the 'YOU' and the handshake occurred...[Wilson] broke out into a huge smile, one of the biggest I have ever seen him give...
Dole has almost always worked with Senator Nancy Kassebaum, especially to assist Kansas industries like wheat growers and small-airplane manufacturers. But Dole broke with his fellow Republican--and endangered the health-care legislation she left last month as her legacy--by looking after the interest of a Dole Inc. supporter, Golden Rule Insurance of Indianapolis. Golden Rule was pushing medical savings accounts, which allow people with high-deductible insurance plans to set up tax-favored savings accounts to use for their health-care expenses. Dole's amendment, which would have cost the Treasury $1.8 billion over seven years...
...friend Faye Resnick, who wrote a book about the tempestuous relationship between Simpson and Nicole and whose testimony is expected to open the door to further mutual character assassination and details of the couple's party-hearty life-styles; and former playmate Paula Barbieri, who will testify that she broke up with Simpson the morning of June 12, 1994, perhaps providing the spark for an explosion of rage that night...
Hell hath no fury like a woman whose development deals are stymied. Sondra Locke is suing former beau Clint Eastwood because when they broke up, Locke dropped her palimony suit after he said he'd help her get a studio deal. She's asking for $2 million, claiming Eastwood secretly undermined her projects. He denies her allegations...
When Jackie Robinson joined the Dodgers, he not only broke the racial barrier, he also set new standards in baseball: "He looks awkward, but isn't. He stops and starts as though turned off & on with a toggle switch. He seems to hit a baseball on the dead run. Once in motion, he wobbles along, elbows flying, hips swaying, shoulders rocking--creating the illusion that he will fly to pieces with every stride. But once he gains momentum, his shoulders come to order and his feet skim along like flying fish. He is not only jackrabbit fast, but about...