Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make it a good deal for the business community ? so we don't wind up with a bunch of nightmares saying, 'We passed all these tough laws and now here are all these people in the street with no right to get any help.'" Clinton urged states to follow a Kansas City program that converts public assistance money into paying jobs. Under the program, a public-private partnership called the Local Investment Commission funnels federal welfare and food stamp money to an agency that uses the money to give employers wage supplements of $500 a month for each former welfare...
Also, be on the look-out for a sleek helmet; we're one athlete fatality away from a fashion explosion in headgear. For the ultra-cool, follow senior infielder Peter Albers' avant-garde style and skateboard to practice...
...also prompted another round of soul searching by the mainstream media. Once again the nation's major networks and newspapers were forced to follow the tabloids' lead, pursuing a story they felt uneasy with, unearthed by a publication many regard with disdain. They were wary, not just of the story's source and tawdry sexual details but of its timing. The Star's scoop was first made public on the very day of President Clinton's acceptance speech, in a front-page story in the New York Post, a newspaper owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. (Murdoch once owned...
...veered all over the map--but too few of the songs on the Pearl Jam CD explore the musical possibilities they suggest in any kind of definitive or provocative manner. No Code is the sound of a band looking for a new direction, but too comfortable and cautious to follow through on its vision...
Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy Who You Are is a solid number, but it clearly owes a lot to Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, with whom Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder worked on the sound track to the film Dead Man Walking. Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker Smile sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo (Pearl Jam worked with Young on his 1995 album, Mirror Ball); it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine...