Word: coate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impersonators seem to love their work. Suzanne McGohey of Dumfries, Va., was a schoolteacher until she started impersonating a hooker at Hogan's Alley. Given the alias Wanda Lust, she swaddles herself in a mink coat and pearls that the FBI seized in a drug raid. Says she: "Where else can you act like a sleaze and get paid for it? It enables you to be deviant in a healthy...
...unused mileage credits for discounts on everything from diamond jewelry to inflatable catamarans. Passengers who have flown at least 20,000 miles receive a catalog listing available rebates when they buy such items as a Toyota Tercel ($400 off for 20,000 miles) or a full- length lynx fur coat ($15,000 for 120,000 miles). Still, some travel- industry experts consider the barter system overly complex and many of the rebates less than breathtaking...
...Clark ordered Griswold Hall locked and secured Thursday--as students were staging a sit-in inside--police took their orders seriously. Very seriously. At one point, a security officer apparently became nervous that three protesters standing in an open doorway might let more in. So the stocky, trench-coat clad officer used his body to block off the door, and began pushing the students out. A shoving match ensued, and one woman law student ended up on the ground...
...despair of a twice-exiled people is etched into Inna Hairadze's tear- streaked face. Together with 100 other Meskhetian Turks, she stands in a thin wool coat on a Moscow street, protesting her people's lot. In 1944, "to strengthen border safety," Joseph Stalin deported the Turks from their mountainous homeland in Georgia to the flatlands of Uzbekistan. Then, last June, the Uzbeks rose up against the Turks, burning houses, belongings, even babies. One hundred people died, and 17,000 Turks were moved out. Authorities in Moscow scattered the refugees across Russia, where they are still denied permanent residence...
...elsewhere. Another drawback is the agency's refusal to fix up old properties or provide loans for potential buyers. With enough troubles of their own, many banks and thrifts refuse to grant mortgages on such tainted properties. "If the RTC won't pay for a new roof and fresh coat of paint, and no one will lend on it, how am I going to sell it?" asks Dallas real estate agent Jenny Capritta...