Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town's most endearing quality. "If you fall ill on the streets of New York, people grumble about having to step over you or around you," wrote Walker Percy in a cynical moment. "In New Orleans there is still a chance, diminishing perhaps, that somebody will drag you into the neighborhood bar and pay the innkeeper for a shot of Early Times." Now faced with choosing between a twice-indicted rascal and an ex-neo-Nazi Klan leader for Governor, the citizens of Louisiana could use a shot...
...recession has been going on," says George Schueppert, chief financial officer of CBI Industries, an energy- equipment company that has totted up $1.5 billion worth of new orders this year, largely from Asia and Latin America. But merchandise exports amount to just 7% of American GNP and can scarcely drag the economy out of the doldrums single-handedly. Moreover, the manufacturing boom could quickly go bust if nervous domestic consumers don't start opening their wallets soon...
...find it quite absurd of Cloud to drag CLUH into a situation in which it has absolutely no connection, and to mention CLUH in his article even before he brought up my connection to the protest. Yet I would like to state publicly that the other members of the CLUH Executive Board have scheduled a meeting, without me present, to decide how the organization will respond...
...characters consist mainly of Vegas standbys--gamblers, showgirls and lounge lizards. Among the eight males and eight "females," played by men in drag, are casino-inspired Collier Bluff, Delia Cards and Roland Dice...
...Georgia with 60% of the vote while Democrat Wyche Fowler won his 1986 Senate race by only 2 points. With Fowler facing re-election this year, a coattail campaign would target an even greater effort in Georgia -- not to raise the President's already ample victory margin but to drag in Fowler's Republican challenger...