Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall. The ice-breaker: Pataki relented on tight fiscal proposals affecting the city's public employees and schools. The standoff had caught the notice ofDavid Letterman, who listed as one of his "top 10 signs your new governor is nuts": "Won't return the phone call of the best damn mayor of the best damn city of the best damn country in the world...
...suspect be fleeing? If he needed a car to make a getaway, why take the kids? She said he had approached her at a stoplight, with no one else around; but that particular light required another auto approaching the intersection to turn it red. Above all, where was the damn...
...actual cost of protecting the President is a secret, creating some grumbling on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. "Too damn many Secret Service," says a White House aide, believing the agency may have passed the threshold of true security and now complicates its own operations. The entire Secret Service has a budget of $461 million and employs 4,600 people worldwide, but what portion goes to presidential protection is not known. What is known is that a Secret Service request for more money is almost never turned down by Congress and that a certain institutional arrogance infects the agency. "They...
...damn college football playoff. Eight teams chosen by an NCAA selection committee a la basketball, three weeks, all games played at existing bowl sites, rotate the national championship site every year...
...slams on the New York Times' Bosley Crowther and epochal tussles over the auteur theory with the Village Voice's Andrew Sarris. Not until Kael joined the New Yorker in 1968 did she move to the front line and have to concentrate pretty much on reviewing the damn movies...