Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also has a sneaky way of actually producing the "best" of the nighttime lineup. And thanks to Conan O'Brien, Harvard's connection to showbiz is now common knowledge, for better or for worse. Forget the alumni network in Washington or on Wall Street--Hollywood is the latest Crimson conquest...
...fundamentalism, political instability or aggressive expansionism. U.S. military contractors are also helping to fuel an arms race between historical enemies Greece and Turkey. Although the U.S. currently supplies many nations with arms, there is no shortage of ruthless dictators or despotic regimes eager to buy weapons, either for foreign conquest or more likely, for internal conflicts and political oppression...
...bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men -- a Clockwork Orange-style landscape ruled by drug dealers and petty hoods. Two of its songs, Le Grind and Dead on It, are explicit, sometimes monotonous odes not to sexual pleasure but to sexual conquest. On Bob George, a well-armed drug dealer kills his girlfriend after learning she's cheating on him ("I'm the one who pays the bills," he says), then holes up in his apartment and shoots it out with the police. The album is not relentlessly dark, however. When...
...talk about a man who knew what he wanted out of life. He also knew how to get it: after the tribal leader known as Temujen was crowned in A.D. 1206 as the Mongols' Genghis Khan -- "emperor of all emperors" -- he waged nearly continuous wars of conquest against his neighbors. By his death in 1227, Genghis Khan ruled most of the lands between the Sea of Japan and the Caspian Sea, an empire that encompassed two-thirds of the known world and far eclipsed the celebrated realms of Alexander the Great. To those who were overrun by the Khan...
...field for a while. Once during a lunch with a reporter, Simpson asked the restaurant hostess to put money in the parking meter next to his Mercedes convertible. She complimented him on the car. He offered her a ride, and off they went to a condo. Recounting his conquest later, he said with a laugh that he got her back to work in time for cocktail hour...