Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer of 1992 Phiber and four MOD members were indicted for their computer trespasses. Phiber was the last to plead guilty, insisting to the end that he had done nothing wrong. The judge gave Phiber the longest sentence of the bunch -- a year in federal prison -- to send a message to other hackers that computer crime doesn...
...prepared to give his surprisingly conciliatory opening address, several vanquished Democratic committee chairmen -- among them former Foreign Affairs chairman Lee Hamilton of Indiana -- paced the back aisles, pale ghosts of caucuses past. One chose to look at the bright side. As chairman, he said, "you're dealing with a bunch of little rug rats whining about what they want and what they didn't get." Ceding power is "like getting out of the day-care business. All of a sudden, it looks like a good deal." So is Newt Gingrich nanny to the nation? He will certainly get to conciliate...
...Bill Trenkle, who runs Conner's sailing operations, admits as much. "We realize with a fast boat they'll be dangerous," he says. "Women love to beat men and men love to make fun of men who are beaten by women. If we get our butt kicked by a bunch of girls, Dennis knows it would be hard to live down...
...Conner, the world's most famous sailor, has been less than gracious. At a regatta dinner in Newport, Rhode Island, last August, he called the women's team "a bunch of lesbians," prompting team navigator Annie Nelson to douse him with her rum-and-coke. "He was way out of line," says Nelson. Trenkle, who was standing nearby, maintains that the comment was "locker-room humor. They were joking around." Many of the women were not amused. "Ninety percent of us are either married or have steady boyfriends, but who cares?" says mainsheet grinder Stephanie Armitage-Johnson...
...fact, the Mexico in this week's editions sounds like a different country from the one we heard about in August. Then it was a land of plenty, a healthy economy, a sophisticated nation managed by a savvy bunch of Ivy Leaguers who had the full confidence of the world's financial markets. Now it's a heap of trouble, a basket case, a sick economy that's managed by a gang of double- talking bumblers...