Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close contest for the U.S. Senate on the grounds that "Republicans buy shoes too." More recently, Jordan brushed off questions about whether Nike, which pays him $20 million a year in endorsement fees, was violating standards of decency by paying Indonesian workers only 30[cents] a day. His curt comment: "My job with Nike is to endorse the product. Their job is to be up on that." On the baseball field or off it, when Robinson came up to the plate, he took his best shot and knocked it out of the park. The superstar athletes who have taken...
...foes--Iran, Iraq and North Korea--have only about 100 front-line warplanes among them. That total, the Navy projects, will climb to 120 by 2005. Lawmakers are irritated by Ralston's apparent sleight-of-threat. "There's been a lack of candor in the whole process," complains Representative Curt Weldon, the hawkish Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House Committee on National Security's research-and-development panel. "We haven't been given a threat that warrants these programs," he told Time. "We can't justify them...
Given the subsequent fame that many of the artists enjoyed, one is apt to suppose that their emigre life (especially in America) was secure, but actually it depended on stipends, teaching jobs and ad hoc support arranged by dealers--many of them emigres themselves, like Curt Valentin--and by a few museum officials, notably Alfred Barr Jr. of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Visas, stamps and bureaucratic routines took on a disproportionate significance, as they always do for the marginal. After the U.S. entered the war in 1941, the foreignness of some artists counted against them even more...
...last meeting, when McMahon asked Tolentino to tell the group about her experience on a panel with President Clinton, the youngster was curt...
...DIED. CURT FLOOD, 59, doughty former St. Louis Cardinal centerfielder; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Flood defied baseball's hallowed reserve system in 1969 by refusing to be traded from St. Louis, and later, in a case that went to the Supreme Court, sued for antitrust violation. He lost, but his singular challenge paved the way for the 1975 agreement permitting players to become free agents...