Word: burge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three panelists--Steven Burg, professor of political science at Brandeis University, Hurst Hannum, professor of international law at the Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Ziljan Schuster, associate dean of the Business School at the University of New Haven--were critical of NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia...
...dancing naked on their boats in the Ohio River, right behind the stage.) Buffett's fans, the Parrotheads--so named by a friend of Buffett's at a Cincinnati, Ohio, show in 1986--have made tonight his 35th consecutive sell-out in this city, the kind of middle-American burg where people are thirstiest for Buffett's cheerful, escapist anthems. Quenching that thirst is Buffett's civic duty...
...haven't stumbled upon one of those places in the minivan, children strapped in behind you in those church pews--or maybe in a roadster, top down, the wind laughing through the sparse seedlings of your new plug-a-rug--and wondered how a nowhere burg like Dalton, Ga., comes to carpet the planet. Or how a look-fast town, a highway blur, becomes the Garlic Capital (Gilroy, Calif.) or the Storm-Watching Capital (Bandon, Ore.) of the universe (or so they claim...
...Joshua Tree National Park, we visited a different type of generational enclave: Palm Springs, a remarkably well-landscaped desert entirely populated by tan elderly individuals ready to play golf at a moment's notice. Our "economy" rental car and solid-colored clothing was painfully out of place in this burg, so humming U2 (no tape-deck in "economy" rentals) we hurried on our way. Joshua Tree, not surprisingly, was filled with Joshua trees, but it offered little in the way of generations and lots in the way of El Nino-induced drizzle. So with the prototypical National Park...
Lipinski rocketed through figure skating's triple crown--the Nationals, Champion Series and World Championships--and made time to chat up Letterman and model DKNY Kids clothing on her Website. Chevrolet, Minute Maid and Campbell's soup are only a few of her endorsements, and her agent, Michael Burg, says, "Wherever we go, we see Kwan's people too." It all seems so cutthroat for a girl whose hometown is called Sugar Land, Texas...