Word: coin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pampering paid off. Bruce became a wealthy coin collector while still in his teens. Then he collected a hockey team, collected a football team, collected race horses, collected Rolls-Royces and five residences and a private jet and well-placed friends -- collected, all told, a worldwide reputation as an expert in antiquities, a nice guy, a canny businessman and a fine judge of athletes and horseflesh...
Problem is, it didn't. There is not a shred of evidence, despite the defensive protestations of Administration officials, that Assad moved or that Clinton got anything at all for this investment of American prestige. The only clear return was to Assad, in the coin of international legitimacy and respectability...
...Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador to the U.N. "Words are cheap," she bluntly declared. "Actions are the coin of the realm...
This choice is not supposed to be a difficult step. Most Harvard students come to college knowing where they stand. If, however, you are unlucky enough to hold moderate views--neither conservative nor liberal--you may need to flip a coin to decide which side to join...
...shouldn't be so hard to humanize Nicole and cut O.J. down to size. He may have held the record for yards rushing, but he also holds it for celebrity afterlife. Only in the deflated coin of the realm would Simpson have been considered a hero. He was an athlete who turned a brilliant career running a football into a minor one flacking rental cars, sportscasting and acting. Much is made of the amiability with which he performed these duties, but accommodating fans is how a faded athlete convinces a company like Hertz to keep paying him top dollar...