Word: dust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not your grandfather's Freshman Union. Smoking jackets and cigars are gone. However, underneath all the scaffolding and dust, remnants of the old Freshman Union permeate the modernity of the new Barker Center for the Humanities...
...that dicey district known as Broadway, there are no sure bets, but reviving a cherished old musical comes close. Find a Rodgers and Hammerstein gem that's been away for a while or dust off a fondly remembered piece of froth like A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and nostalgic theatergoers will probably beat a path to your stage door...
...million mark. Coss, whose company specializes in financing mobile homes, motorcycles and other big-ticket consumer items, walked away with $65.6 million in salary and bonus last year, leaving better-known titans like Sanford Weill of the Travelers Group and Jack Welch of General Electric in the dust...
Oklahoma is no stranger to boom-and-bust upheavals. Fickle forces, from the 1930s dust-bowl drought to the 1995 terrorist bombing, have etched the Sooners with a distinct skepticism. Buoyed by the growth of the service sector, Oklahoma's economy is stable, but past upheavals have reverberated in the political realm as well: in 1990 Oklahoma was one of the first states to approve term limits for state legislators. This used to be a Democratic outpost, but in the past few years Oklahoma has swung markedly to the right. And this year may mean that a Republican sweep...
...connecting viscerally with voters, each risks being defined by the other's negative campaign. Jenkins has accused Landrieu of mismanaging public funds, and labeled her out of step with state voters for taking money from a gay political-action committee. Landrieu has pronounced Jenkins "David Duke lite." When the dust settles, Landrieu hopes her precarious liberal-center coalition will put her over the top. If so, her win may go down as one of the Clinton Administration's most impressive diplomatic feats...