Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business that sparks the most complaints. Many pitches to homes are not only annoying but also criminal: phony offers of Florida real estate and other telescams bilk households out of as much as $40 billion a year. Both houses of Congress passed bills to enable regulators to crack down harder on such abuses after FBI agents raided 95 telemarketing offices and arrested 210 people on suspicion of fraud earlier this year. The measures will now go to a House-Senate conference committee, with a final version expected to reach President Clinton's desk this fall...
...Gracie, have you found George yet?' Scripts were prepared accordingly. NBC in a last-minute ruling, decreed otherwise. The missing brother gag, NBC held, was a CBS promotion and nuts to a rival network promoting itself over NBC facilities. The script would have to be rewritten, the missing brother crack thrown out." -- New York Daily News...
...racketeering statutes also offer the government a second crack at trying Nosair for the murder of Kahane without running afoul of the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy. Many people, including the judge in the case, were outraged when a state jury convicted Nosair of gun possession but acquitted him of the murder itself. It is a well-established principle that the same act can be prosecuted twice if it violates the laws of different "sovereignties." And though murder as such is not a federal crime, killing someone to further a racketeering conspiracy, as Nosair is accused of doing...
...Letterman is a tough celebrity to crack," says Zoglin. "He's complicated, enigmatic and sincerely uncomfortable tooting his own horn. He's got a girlfriend he desperately tries to keep from the public. He likes his private life private...
...segment called Charts and Graphs -- "Dyslexics' Favorite Beatles," featuring names like ULAP and OGNRI; the host said it made fun of a serious disability. Comedian Jeff Altman, another Letterman pal from the Comedy Store days, remembers a guest appearance on Late Night in which he made a lewd crack that included the word "genitals." Letterman didn't laugh, and Altman complained about it later at dinner. "I said, 'You could have helped me out a little there.' Dave said, "Maybe you shouldn't have said that...