Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, the Irish finally "made it" in America, eventually becoming CEO's of Fortune 500 companies, major league ballplayers, Senators and representatives, Supreme Court Justices, even President of the United States. Just like it isn't American to "pull up the life boats" for future immigrants, it isn't American, nor is it Irish, to forget our past, to forget some of the forces that drove us to this country in the first place, and thereby remember and aid those who now are in need of what we once needed...
...versa. No wonder Bush has victory-starved Republicans salivating. "This is being driven by a pervasive terror in the ranks of Republicans," concedes one of his outside advisers. "If we lose the White House in 2000, we'll lose another third of the federal judiciary and two more Supreme Court Justices. And we'll lose the House. We're staring into the abyss, and a lot of Republicans feel Bush is the only one who can save...
...another by Seth Ersoff, an entertainment manager who claims he introduced Monea to Blanks and was later denied a share of the profits from Tae-Bo. Monea's lawyer declines to comment on the allegations. But his client's track record isn't reassuring. In 1997 an Ohio court ruled that Monea's company could not sell "the stimulator," an electric-grill lighter outfitted with a thumb plunger that, when pressed, was supposed to relieve pain...
Three flights up at the Galleria mall in Sherman Oaks, Calif., where Sean Penn played a surf dude whose diet consisted entirely of junk food and dope in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the food court was dead. You almost wished Spicoli, the crazy pothead, would show up, and scrounge a few burgers...
Fashion Square is one of them, and Daniel Wegman, 18, is in the food court there, staking out a prospect. He has spotted her from 50 yards and gets into position for a good look, and after she passes he proclaims, "She was hot!" The Galleria didn't have any girls worth chasing, he says. It was stuck in the '80s, like those movies...