Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think you can answer that question yourself," was as close as Ray Lankford was going to come. "I don't think it has anything to do with black-white, and it irritates the hell out of me when I hear it," says LaRussa. Maybe the real reason the fans dig Big Mac is because he's built like a home-run hitter of old. In fact, old home-run hitters didn't look as much like McGwire as they should have. McGwire is who we imagine Babe Ruth to be; he's like a cartoon of Ruth in which...
Mindless, sadistic violence juxtaposed with rote sentimentality: this is how Hollywood has finally solved the family-values conundrum, the question of how to entertain the blood- and sex-starved masses and be morally proactive at the same time. Well, dig this: Explosions are cool, and so are intact families! That's the message promulgated by Lethal Weapon 4, in which the above-mentioned scene takes place. As Mel Gibson's character comes to terms with impending fatherhood and Danny Glover's with impending grandfatherhood, the film wends its curious way, alternating crashes and neck breakings with scenes of limp domestic...
...Union would be transformed into a "free and democratic" country and that there would be peace between Arabs and Israelis. Lyndon Johnson, then a Senator, saw the end of racial segregation in America. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT foresaw a Jewish President. Today, because the union is moving offices, it wants to dig out the relic and open it. Trouble is, the union can't find it, and the only record the group has of who said what comes from a couple of newspaper clippings. One story says the time capsule was installed in the building's "walnut-paneled boardroom." That, unfortunately...
Wealthy? Retired? Unfulfilled? Do what the famous do and dig deep into the unknown for that first novel...
When Stetson law professor Charles Elson joined the board at Sunbeam Corp. two years ago, the company's pugnacious CEO, Albert J. Dunlap, wanted him to think like an owner. So he insisted that Elson dig deep into his own pockets and buy $100,000 worth of Sunbeam stock. Two weeks ago, with the value of that stake fast eroding, Elson said, "You bet I looked at the company as an owner." So he and his similarly staked board mates moved fast to "Dunlap" Dunlap, sacking the job slasher whose name had become a Wall Street verb...