Word: dirt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that's just the free stuff. If you're willing to pay for dirt, dozens of info brokers are waiting on the Web to supply you with just about anyone's Social Security number, listed (and unlisted) phone numbers, voter registrations, driving records, court records, real estate holdings, liens and, well, you name it. Even such esoterica as companies registered in Switzerland, corporate profiles of Japanese businessmen and Nevada divorce petitions are all stored neatly online and available for a price...
...been nine months since Clinton played federal marshal in the Great Yellowstone Mine Shootout. The dispute began in the late 1980s as new techniques for locating pay dirt suddenly turned old claims on Henderson into a $1 billion lode of extractable ore. The glitch was that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed...
WEALTHLESS WINNIE DISHES THE DIRT--OR TRIES...
...couple the Texians had taken hostage Sunday. But while police were buoyed by the surrender, McLaren's increasingly angry neighbors, who voluntarily evacuated the area, won't be satisfied until they are allowed back into their homes, reports Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne. Federal authorities have blockaded the one dirt road leading to the Davis Mountains Resort, leaving as many as 120 residents locked out. Some 25 others decided to stay when police asked them to evacuate, but are now stuck inside with no telephone access, since the lines apparently were cut. All of McLaren?s neighbors had better...
Before April 15, 1947, there was a famous saying about baseball: the grass is green, the dirt is brown and the players are white. Fifty years ago this week, a rookie first bagger for the Brooklyn Dodgers stepped into the batters box in Ebbets field and changed the face of the game forever. Acting Commissioner Bud Selig explained the significance of Jackie R. Robinson's act, saying that for most of its time baseball has believed in the principle that no player is above the game, except Jackie Robinson...