Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That kind of devotion has sold more than 41 million copies of Baby-Sitters books since the series, which now runs to 40 volumes, began in August 1986. About 6 million copies of a companion series, Baby-Sitters Little Sister, for slightly younger readers, have been snatched up in just two years. Now the spin-offs are descending. Baby-Sitters calendars and school planners are already on the market, as are two videos. Milton Bradley sells a Baby-Sitters board game, and Remco Toys plans a new line of Baby-Sitters dolls, complete with a closetful of outfits and tiny...
...presidential palace, three miles away in Port-au-Prince, the capital. On the way, the driver stopped to pick up a second passenger, a heavyset, balding man whom Pascal-Trouillot could not identify in the dark. Only after arriving at the palace did the President learn that her companion was Dr. Roger Lafontant, former head of the Tontons Macoutes militia, and that she was his hostage in a coup attempt...
...city Peace Commission is currently organizing a companion event to be held at places of worship throughout Cambridge, and the council voted to support that effort...
...Adventurous Oenophile is selecting wines to accompany a festive dinner. For aperitifs, the A.O. and his companion want a sparkling wine -- and what could be livelier than the 1986 Ste. Chapelle Blanc de Noir brut? With the appetizer, a glass of white wine would be appropriate: the A.O. selects a 1986 Anderson Valley Chardonnay. Since the diners have chosen meat entrees, the A.O. requests a bottle of Llano Estacado's 1986 Cellar Select Cabernet Sauvignon. And a non-vintage Johannisberg Riesling from Chaddsford Winery will set off dessert nicely. The sommelier takes the order with an approving smile...
This dinner, with its plump pheasant, understated Bordeaux and unobtrusive help from the Top-One School of Butlers, has been planned to the last detail by the city's most charming couple, American painter Hurley Reed and his companion, Chris Donovan. One guest, a genealogist who resists the temptation to find distinguished ancestors for rich people, is so obliging at parties that he can be put "next to a tree and he will talk to it." Another, a television-documen tary producer, temporarily quiets the victim of a recent crime with her theory that all human beings exist psychologically...