Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peony of a dress, a newspaper boss. We have no brazenly rapacious Barbara Stanwycks or Bette Davises; instead we have Monica Lewinskys and Ally McBeals, women just insecure and pesty. On the bright side, no one will ever make a career out of doing Calista Flockhart in drag...
...House Committee justice. The time and dedication our HoCo puts into making the House a lively place is second to none. In addition to the four "Club Pfoho" dances in the past year-and-a-half, where is mention of Gotcha, the Roommate Game and our own Drag Night? Not to mention Thursdayfest and the Battle of the Bonds slated for this April. And our awesome volleyball team. And our diverse population--we have the highest minority population of any house. And spirit. The list goes...
...they? Britain, Denmark and Sweden have chosen to remain outside the Euro club, while Greece was excluded because of its massive deficit. Even within the chosen 11, some poor performers could drag down the currency: Italy, for example, has a debt greater than 120 percent of GDP. More immediately, the EU has to resolve, by May 2, the touchy question of who should head up the new European Central Bank in Frankfurt. ?There?s a political battle between the French and the Germans right now over who will be named president of the central bank,? says TIME Brussels bureau chief...
...revenues of $1.2 billion, is roughly the same size as Sunbeam and has problems similar to those Dunlap faced at Sunbeam when he arrived in July 1996. Coleman essentially becomes Dunlap's next turnaround gig. Only he bought it instead of being hired. (Job hunting is such a drag.) If he can work his formula at Coleman, Sunbeam's stock will shoot much higher. With that in mind, Wall Street rolled out the red carpet, pushing Sunbeam shares up 24% in a week. Remember, an acquirer's stock generally goes down at first...
...doors and pin back the ears. It's a mix of black, white and Hispanic kids with one language: words like slicks and tranny, struts and squeeze. Someone says, "Let's go," and they pull out single file, sucking oil wells dry as they caravan toward the drag strip--a remote industrial stretch in the nothing-else-to-do town of Sylmar...