Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terms of choosing acts, the directors really did a great job," says Tambar, who performed in the show's interpretive dance. "If we call ourselves a South Asian show, we should try to represent all of South Asian culture, and the directors did that...
When King got out of prison in 1997, he got to work planning the Independence Day kickoff for his Texas Rebel Soldiers. He wanted something to call attention to the group, prosecutors say, and what he had in mind was a racial killing. As it turned out, opportunity--in the form of Byrd ambling along the highway--presented itself a few weeks before July 4. It seemed precisely the kind of dramatic action King had been working toward. King dragged his victim's severed torso through a black part of town and dumped it near a black church and cemetery...
...think those Congressmen who accused Bill Clinton of violating Paula Jones' civil rights would want to leap on this issue. But you'd be wrong. The AIUSA report is more likely to be dismissed as a slanderous liberal assault on the criminal-justice system than as a wake-up call for reform. Like Alfred E. Neuman, its detractors will look deeply into their own heart, pronounce themselves innocent and bury their head in the sand...
...avoid answering the question at the heart of this Balkan war: Should Kosovo be an independent state? "The beauty of the interim accord is that no one has to give up their dreams," explains U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill. "We've created this gray thing that one side will call an elephant and the other will call a mouse." Trouble is, some members of the Albanian delegation saw through that and demanded a written guarantee of eventual independence. No way, said NATO. "Sure, they can ask for it," Hill adds, "but getting it is another matter. Today, the international community does...
...last May came Grantham's prescription for poverty. He was making his monthly phone call to Heartland, an Omaha, Neb., mail-order pharmacy, when a salesman informed him that the price of lorazepam had jumped from $11 to $85 for a month's supply of 100 pills. "I can't live without this medication," he says in an East Texas drawl. "I eventually had to get the money from a loan company...