Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of this would bother me in the least, I suspect, if a few years ago, my phone, like Marley's ghost, hadn't given me a glimpse of the nightmares to come. On Thanksgiving weekend in 1995, someone (presumably a critic of a book my wife and I had...
Elderly residents are sometimes the target of home-repair scams. "These people are cash poor but real estate rich," says Frederick Arriaga, a lawyer with Legal Aid in New York. Their houses, however, may be old and in need of repair. One three-story row house in Brooklyn, N.Y., was...
The deal is vintage Jobs. Amelio began the process of repairing relations between the two longtime rivals. But once he was out the door at Apple, Jobs contacted Gates to try to get talks started again. Gates dispatched his CFO, Gregory Maffei, who met Jobs at his home. Jobs suggested...
The scene is so horribly familiar. A sunny afternoon. Shoppers crowding a city street. Then the deadly blast of a bomb, carnage and chaos. Neither the former peacemaking Labor government nor the present security-minded Likud government has figured out a way to stop it.
There were, of course, a few moments of hesitation. We sent a friend down to check it out, and we were somewhat disturbed when she told us about the broken window ("I think they threw a baseball through it") and the fact that it was "really dirty," but no matter...