Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still have to tread a tightrope. Mimic in the mildest form the behavior of a male colleague, and you will be sorry. I know something about this because of the stack of hate mail that arrives if I so much as frown at Robert Novak on CNN's Capital Gang. He can shout me down, insisting I don't know what I'm talking about and be deluged with fan mail. If I go so far as to say "Let me finish," letters arrive about how strident and shrill I am -- and, yes, what a bitch...
...this adds up to a long run at the top for Calipari and his gang...
...land of plenty, a healthy economy, a sophisticated nation managed by a savvy bunch of Ivy Leaguers who had the full confidence of the world's financial markets. Now it's a heap of trouble, a basket case, a sick economy that's managed by a gang of double- talking bumblers...
Several incidents in Corniel's past came to light today: Public records say he was charged in 1984 in Compton, Calif., with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon (a knife) in a gang-related fight. The Torrance, Calif., Daily Breeze reported he was convicted twice of violent crimes. Corniel was also nearly killed in August 1992 when the car he was driving crashed and caught fire; he underwent extensive reconstructive surgery for severe burns covering 80 percent of his body, but failed to show up last August for more treatment. His sister and her husband, with whom...
...liked his folksy habit of sending out tax bills with slogans that rhymed ("Taxes paid on time never draw fines"). And they really liked the remarkably high returns that Citron earned on the billions of dollars of county funds that he managed -- income that paid for such things as gang-busting police drives in a time of tight budgets. It was thus not surprising that Citron easily won a seventh term this year, despite his opponent's charges that he had loaded up the treasury with risky derivatives and other highly leveraged investments that could decimate it with the swiftness...