Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington will preside over a show set to include approximately two dozen cultural groups who will perform ethnic songs and dances...
...preliminary decision in that regard could come as early as this week. No sooner had Clinton signed the bill than the American Civil Liberties Union and nearly two dozen other plaintiffs filed suit in federal court to have the indecency clause declared unconstitutional. The Department of Justice has a week to show cause why the judge should not impose a temporary restraining order. Federal prosecutors have agreed not to enforce the new law for now and stipulated in court that a second provision, criminalizing the electronic distribution of abortion information, is a violation of free speech...
...ADMIRERS BACK IN NIGERIA, Olushina Adekanbi, 36, was revered as the "King of New York." U.S. law-enforcement officials were less adulatory. They knew the dapper Nigerian as a man of more than two dozen aliases who allegedly ran the largest ring of credit-card thieves in the U.S. Authorities busted Adekanbi last September on credit-fraud charges. Then last week, after a five-month investigation, they brought some 200 counts against the still-jailed Adekanbi and seven other Nigerians, including Adekanbi's wife Mary. The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years. "We've broken...
...however, he hit a wall. Payne spent his life savings of $100,000, plus an additional borrowed $85,000, on building permits, blueprints, and the like, but could not get a city-sponsored loan because, he believes, of the scale of his project. He trudged to more than a dozen banks, which rejected his application because his investment did not represent a sufficient portion of the plan...
...improvisations of sweet-souled egomaniacs are rewarded by improbable last-minute success, writer-director Kenneth Branagh's 'A Midwinter's Tale' is a very acceptable update." Especially if you like Woody Allen. Branagh has adopted a number of Allen's mannerisms in shooting this story of a half a dozen profoundly marginalized English actors determined to put on a play. "Branagh sometimes sacrifices bite to the sentiment so endemic to show biz," says Schickel. "But this bustling, affectionately knowing film is never slow...