Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last winter I went to the Chamber of Commerce banquet and explained that I had been misunderstood. It all depended on how many fountains there were, I said. I didn't want to dismantle a fountain if we had only one more fountain than Rome. I didn't want to lose the edge. I didn't want to arrive in Rome some day and find a sign saying, "Piu fontane di Kansas City...
Motels, restaurants and other saloons in the Missoula area all cleaned up, although Kim Latrielle says the Chamber of Commerce doesn't promote the Testicle Festival because "it is not a family-type event...
...Right now we're out of bumper stickers," says Chamber of Commerce president Anne Sweitzer, whose office is a museum of spiritual quotations, such as this gem: THE HEART NEVER RESTETH TILL IT FINDETH REST IN THEE. "But we're very proud to be the fire-hydrant capital of the world...
...lawyers are starting to haul out some tough cases. In an Oakland, Calif., suit headed to trial soon, the family of 15-year-old Kenzo Dix says he was accidentally killed by his 14-year-old friend because the Beretta that was used still had a bullet in the chamber ready to fire when the gun's magazine was empty. The gun should have had a "loaded-chamber indicator" to make that clear, the family argues, along with "personalized gun" technology that would have prevented an unauthorized user--like the 14-year-old shooter--from firing it. The industry says...
After the beating Tripp has taken in the press, Starr's grand-jury chamber must seem downright inviting. There, at least, she will be in control of her story, telling it for the first time in a friendly forum--a room free of opposition lawyers, pesky reporters or late-night comedians. To prepare for the moment, people close to the case tell TIME, Tripp has spent more than 100 hours going over her tapes and other evidence with Starr's deputies, lending context and details to what Lewinsky said...