Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekend began in fine fashion for Harvard with a 45-point dismantling of Princeton. The stats tell the entire story...
...nine years, first as Detroit bureau chief and later as national economic correspondent. His story this week on the dramatic showdown at American Airlines presented him with an unusual twist: the pilots' strike deadline came at just about the same time as our editorial deadline, so Gwynne had to fashion most of his story without knowing whether the pilots would walk out. "I reported it as though we were heading toward a major strike," he says, "while at the same time rooting for them to find a way to avert a shutdown. I found myself in the odd position...
Speculation? Perhaps, but in a harmless fashion, unlike the dangerous speculation that the psychiatric professional makes everytime he diagnoses a child with ADD and prescribes Ritalin or other similar medicines whose effects have not been conclusively determined...
...president's budget proposal also beefs up funding for secondary school education, but to limited effect. Though the overall budget for public schools will be increased by 11 percent to $29.1 billion, this money will still be distributed through rich and poor districts in a fairly even fashion. A bit of saving grace comes from a $400 million increase in the Title I appropriation which is used to aid poor children academically. But the administration's F.D.R.-like insistence on a computer in every classroom (and the $500 million next year so allotted) reduces the overall productive capital that might...
...think Madonna in her role in the film Evita was fantastic. There is no need for anyone to ask, "Can this movie revive Madonna's career?" This woman is a living legend. No one else has had such an impact on American fashion, style and sensuality since...oh, maybe Marilyn? Who else could emerge from the bowels of the New York City club scene to become an international star? Madonna's energy and audacity make her an unforgettable original in the wasteland of bland, wimpy disco divas (the Mariah Careys and Celine Dions, yuck!). Being trashed by tabloids and appearing...