Word: chins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They do have two "birthmarks" that enable others to tell them apart: Jocelyn has a scar next to her right eye from a fall when she was two years old and Jennifer has a mole on her chin from a childhood bout with chicken...
...Murdoch, the investigation is a product of partisan revenge, obsolete law and the machinations of an embittered rival. To others it is a David-vs.-Goliath story in which an obscure Washington attorney (named David, in fact) "took a swing in the dark and hit someone on the chin," as one media lawyer describes it. Still others see the probe as a case study in how companies can abuse the regulatory process. It is nearing its climax just as Congress prepares to jettison a battery of obsolete media regulations and launch an era of explosive competition...
West, a lifelong migraine sufferer, was used to weird sensations in his head. So when he felt a familiar woozy pain coming on, he downed a tumbler of Cognac and went to bed. The next morning his breakfast coffee dribbled down his chin and his words turned to mush. These symptoms of a mild stroke quickly cleared, but not the cause: cardiac arrhythmias that required the planting of a pacemaker in his chest. West variously refers to this retrofit as his "titanium tit" and that "little lead soldier ... making a small battuta on my suet...
...enduring magic of Franklin Roosevelt was so strong that one day in the White House Lyndon Johnson stopped by an F.D.R. bust and cradled the bronze chin in his big palm. "Look at that strength," he said to his companion. Then he stroked the Roosevelt face in tribute, his mind reaching back to when he was a young Texas Congressman, watching in awe as F.D.R. steadied the nation in depression and commanded it in war. After nearly 50 years of trying, the U.S. at last seems ready to complete a major Roosevelt memorial in Washington. Or maybe...
...what?'' He lifts his chin off his mittens for the first time in a while, reinvigorated by the chance to tell me how wrong I am. ``Their cash basis is only $10,000 -- you think the IRS won't notice $20 million in capital gains...