Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Walsh to decide whether to appeal to the full circuit court, take his case directly to the Supreme Court or go along with the tedious hearings. If they are held, Gesell will have to determine if North's other two convictions, for obstructing Congress and accepting an illegal gift, should also be dropped. Whatever Gesell decides, the ruling raises a troubling question about the congressional probes of the scandal: Did the lawmakers' haste to hold sensational hearings guarantee that the culprits would go unpunished...
...world's leading makers of sporting goods. His group's holdings in the past included the company that makes Look ski bindings, and he still retains ownership of Belgium's Donnay tennis rackets, which has fallen on bad times since Bjorn Borg, its main promoter, left the pro circuit...
...fled over the Wall in 1976, Nina Hagen discovered the brave new world of punk music. Hagen, 35, learned her craft by singing along to tapes of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin, "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she explains, it's important...
Cocky immature pilot/driver who everyone knows has talent moves from boring aircraft duty/ California sprint circuit to big time Top Gun flight school/NASCAR circuit in order to prove he's great. During adjustment period Cruise gets picked on by other pilots/drivers and the flight instructer/pit crew chief, played by Robert Duvall in Thunder. Pilot/driver has the shadow of his father hanging over him; discusses it with flight instructor/crew chief...
...unsmiling manner on the court and his passion for privacy off it come across, wrongly, as meanness. And both, while seeming indifferent to their reputations of the moment, yearn for a good name in future annals of the game. That is inevitably linked to Wimbledon. The men's circuit has 79 events this year, the women's tour 62, but no one much remembers who prevails in Cincinnati or Stuttgart...