Word: forkful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revoked. Massachusetts has made willful nonpayment a felony punishable by as much as a five-year term in prison. Maine's new welfare law, which threatens to take away the professional and driver's licenses of parents who fall behind on child-support payments, is persuading deadbeat dads to fork over roughly $1 million a month...
Such things make an artist feel old. As his followers were becoming more prominent, De Kooning was easing himself out of Manhattan, spending more and more time on the South Fork of Long Island. The flat potato fields, beaches and glittering air of that tongue of land must often have reminded him of the Dutch seacoast, but what mattered most to his paintings in the late '50s was the experience of getting there, being driven up Route 495 -- fast movement through unscrolling American highway space. Hence the road images of 1957-1958, in which the full-reach, broad-brush speed...
Sure, students appreciate the novelty of one-of-a-kind video stores and unique-to-the-world pseudo-German restaurants. But not every student can fork over $6.25 for knockwurst and sauerkraut...
...owners was treated to the spectacle of the nation's President, looking every bit the Accountant in Chief, doing business math for a Mexican-restaurant owner, a flower-shop owner, an architect, a construction-company owner and a farmer. Their chief concern was how much money they personally would fork over if his plan became law. Regina Jaramillo was worried about insuring the part-timers at her restaurant. "At 7.9%," Clinton patiently explained, "then the real cost -- additional cost -- of doing business would be one-third of that because the payroll is a third of total cost, or something less...
...battle for Long Island, New York, military contractor Grumman. Competing with Martin Marietta for the prize, Northrop agreed to pay $62 a share, or about $2.1 billion, for Grumman -- close to $170 million more than Martin Marietta, Grumman's original choice for a partner, was willing to fork over. Grumman had sought a merger to help ensure longevity in the shrinking military industry. Grumman agreed to pay Martin Marietta $50 million to forget their deal. And what will the employees of Grumman get? Most likely, layoffs...