Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawyers decide to play along. The attorneys negotiate the price down to $150,000, and the cash payoff takes place in a limo--with cops listening in. Bingo! Ligier spends the next six hours in custody. De Niro calls it extortion; Ligier says that's a lot of raging bull. The D.A. is letting a grand jury make the call...
...next year promising to reform the department's "paramilitary mentality." But the outsider allowed Gates' entire command staff to stay on the job and failed to oust most of the 44 problem officers. He didn't remake the department, and he couldn't be the patrolman's pit bull, as Gates had been. So now he courts irrelevance...
...political message, Shaw does not merely express it, she embodies it. Apart from the standard queer affirmation of homosexuality as natural (a theme of many gay and lesbian plays), Shaw confronts the political stigma of the bull dyke within the lesbian community...
...general, spent less time on public relations [BUSINESS, Sept. 4] and more time on quietly getting things done in a steady and unwavering pursuit of excellence, it would not be forced to play catch up so often. How appropriate that Ford's best-selling car is named after the bull. IAN M. HODGE Rochester, New York...
...came away impressed: "Clinton was self-assured, smart, curious, likable and passionate about his ideas.'' Powell never wavers far from that initial assessment (in the book, at least), but he offers a devastating critique of the Administration's modus operandi. National security meetings "meandered like graduate-student bull sessions ellipse Backbenchers sounded off with the authority of Cabinet officers. I was shocked one day to hear one of [National Security Adviser] Tony Lake's subordinates, who was there to take notes, argue with him in front of the rest...