Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Camp Peary. But twice each year he made personal trips to East Asia, and each one was followed by a payment to one of his accounts. After the meeting with Russians that agents say they observed in Singapore, for instance, Nicholson paid $8,300 cash into his American Express account, purchased two gold commemorative coins and paid his $1,679.59 bill at the Shangri-La Hotel in cash...
Wiley and Amuso did not express concern about what the commission might decide. "[The lodging license] is the only thing that they have any jurisdiction over," Wylie said...
...become the consumer, and the school has become a provider, racing to keep up with teenagers' wishes. Hicks complains that more and more creature comforts, such as cable television, are destroying the former selfless asceticism of the schools. Psychological theories of development demand that adolescents be given room to express themselves, and, Hicks implies, the liberal establishment demands that such theories be adhered...
...other women, while two officers await court-martial and 10 other cases are pending there. An Air Force general revealed that over the past three years, eight male instructors have been disciplined for harassment at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. And the San Antonio Express-News reported that at a medic school at Fort Sam Houston, five sergeants were disciplined for fraternization and wild behavior on a February bus trip to Mexico...
...summer progressed without a word from the Times, and eventually I forgot about it. But returning from a family vacation in early August, I discovered a Federal Express letter in my mailbox from my employer, the editor-in-chief of the magazine. The letter was one of the most virulent things I have ever read: I was accused of slandering my job, mocking my responsibilities, denigrating my colleagues at the magazine and insulting my place of employment in a national newspaper. "Were you a full-time employee, this would get you fired--from here, and from almost any other editorial...