Word: deck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gates will be joined at the witness table by archrival CEOs JIM BARKSDALE of Netscape and SCOTT MCNEALY of Sun. But Gates won't face a stacked deck: he persuaded Hatch to have Microsoft-friendly witnesses balance out the panel. Gates will be escorted to the hearing by Senator SLADE GORTON of Washington State, who wants Hatch to be nice to his famous constituent. It's a favor Gorton can return: he's chairman of the subcommittee that controls Interior spending, which affects many of Hatch's Utah constituents...
...often scandals come to this. The fate of those on the upper deck hangs on the mettle of those below. History belongs to Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright--until it devolves to Dwight Chapin and Rose Mary Woods and Betty Currie. But this time we have more than the keeper of the secrets moving center stage; we have the moral center of a drama that had lacked one. If Linda Tripp has come to be the Iago of the piece, full of malice, Currie occupies a place of goodness nearly unparalleled. One of her closest friends, Judy Green, a vice...
...career in the same city, at the same time, as a man of Titian's stature. Titian used up all the air in the room; you couldn't compete with him. But Lotto wasn't trying to be Titian (which was just as well), and this, in the stacked deck of hierarchical opinion, which didn't take account of the fact that different artists had different aims and temperaments, told against his reputation. After he died, it went into decline. Lotto didn't drop out of sight, like Vermeer, and have to be completely rediscovered. But he wasn't highly...
Even when the meet was over and the team completed the tradition by carrying Oren along the pool deck on a stretcher and dumping him back into the water on the other side of the pool, the Iron Man of this year had the strength left to smile and wave to his fans...
...wife wasn't exactly surprised when I said I thought "our kids" might need a video-game deck for the holidays. Given my penchant for computer-based shoot-'em-ups, simulators and splatter games of any kind, how long would it be before I graduated to the hard stuff? Did I say "I"? Ha-ha. Slip of the tongue. My kids, I mean. "It'll be educational for the girls," I assured...