Word: clause
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Santa Claus is coming to town "The President told Lewinsky that he kept a calendar on how long he had been good." --OIC interview...
...little malnourished. But since he became a professional ballplayer nine years ago, he has funneled money south. He has lavished three houses on his mother, bought businesses for his sisters, sent computers to schools, donated ambulances to hospitals, handed out so many Christmas gifts he's known as "Sammy Claus," built the mall in his hometown and erected a fountain where all the change that is thrown into it goes to the local shoeshine boys. In front of the mall, of course, is a statue of himself...
Teenage whores and broken dolls. Petals torn from flowers and baby's milk gone sour. These are her subjects. "I don't really miss God/ But I sure miss Santa Claus," she sings. "I'm Miss World, somebody kill me." And further, "I want to be the girl with the most cake/ I love him so much it just turns to hate/ I fake it so real I am beyond fake/ Someday you will ache like I ache...
Ordinarily, tax-loss selling occurs in November and early December, and very often that selling leads to a "Santa Claus rally" around Christmas, and then to the "January effect" as investors buy stocks that have been driven arbitrarily low. But in a year like this one, with widespread losses, it makes sense to start sooner. "The smart move is to think like it's November in September," says John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney...
...result was The Spirit of Christmas, a 5-min. animated short in which Jesus and Santa Claus fight and curse each other over who has the bigger claim to the holiday. "I was supposed to send it to 500 people on my executive kiss-a__ list," says Graden, who has since moved to MTV. "And I saw it and thought, O.K., this is the funniest thing I've ever seen, but I can't send it to studio heads. So I sent it to about 40 friends, most of them not even in the business." Nevertheless, the tape was copied...