Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense against those who clamor for Clinton's time. They have a good-cop-bad-cop routine in which Hernreich shuts down access to Clinton while Currie smooths ruffled feathers with a kindly "We'll get back to you, dear." And the lower down you are on the food chain, her colleagues say, the nicer...
...lower on the chain than Monica Lewinsky, and some sources say the intern targeted Currie as a way to get to Clinton. "She worked Betty hard," says a Clinton adviser, "to put herself in the eye of the President. She knew the President was in and out of [Betty's] suite." But no one seems to think Currie--with her religious core, her sensible attire and her hair pulled back in a no-nonsense chignon--would cover up for untoward behavior. "She's no Rose Mary Woods," says longtime friend Paul Costello. "Betty's very straight," says a co-worker...
Mike Hoolihan, as her name and the conventions of the genre might suggest, is a big, blowsy, chain-smoking ex-alcoholic of a cop, a woman usually mistaken for a man, and one who has seen more than her fair share of hard knocks. She lives in an American city that could be anywhere--it has a harbor, a university and a wrong side of the tracks--and the train that runs beneath her building disrupts her dreams. She was abused by her father, and the other men in her life were a bunch of "woman-haters and woman-hitters...
Will the Friday's food chain, which is prepared to take over the location of the former California Pizza Kitchen actually make any money? And does this question matter at all--to anyone...
Gifford said she is also concerned that Friday's would be more of a bar than a restaurant, citing the chain's extensive drink menu and plans to have a large bar area. "The city is not meant to license bars," Gifford said...