Word: friend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friedman is a friend of Mamet's, and the title character of Mamet's book, Henrietta the pig, is named after a pet pig Friedman kept at his Martha's Vineyard estate for many years...
...Sometimes, students will call to ask if there is a private home where they can eat," said Director of the Parents' Association Julia G. Fox. "We encourage host families to invite students to have Thanksgiving with them, but often students will choose to eat with a roommate or friend...
...improved in the military in the past five years. And while twice as many minority respondents as white feel the military isn't doing enough to address racial problems, the great majority of problems reported were relatively innocuous. Further, 82 percent of white soldiers reported having a close black friend, a significantly higher proportion than reported by surveys of the civilian population...
...wife's breast cancer has come back and spread to her bones." My friend's eyes filled with tears when he spoke those chilling words. Like millions of other cancer patients, his wife had been treated--successfully, she thought--for one cancer only to discover within a year that it had spread to another part of her body and was growing even more fiercely. Cancer recurrence is never a good sign, but it doesn't mean you have to give up hope. Over the past decade, powerful new treatments have been developed to fight the most stubborn cancers. Most, however...
Consider Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, a Democrat and one of the A.G.s suing Microsoft. The company has hired two of his best friends, both former legislators. "They were in to see me once or twice" about the lawsuit, Miller says, and he's also heard from two former state A.G.s making Microsoft's arguments. A similar strategy seems to be at work in California, where, according to attorney general Bill Lockyer, the company hired a former state senator who is "a very close friend of mine." In West Virginia, Microsoft has taken a tougher tack. According to attorney general...