Word: getter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfect English stereotype of the red-blooded young American businessman. If not for the opening credit sequence in which a prepubescent Gerald watches his mother dress up for a theater performance, the audience would have no indication of Gerald's special interest. He merely seems a young go-getter with an especially intense, heavy-lidded gaze...
...onlookers, rioted over the suspension of a Havana bay ferry that had been hijacked three times to Florida. As some of the rioters dared to shout, "Down with Fidel!" the demonstration was quickly halted. But the message was not lost on Castro. Unleashing refugees has proved an effective attention getter for him in the past, and he has been disappointed that a Democratic Administration in Washington has not proved more receptive to dealing with him. So Castro let it be known that his police would no longer arrest or even try to stop Cubans attempting to flee by makeshift boat...
...part of the most diligent outside intelligence analysts. What is reputed about Jong Il -- known as the Dear Leader -- is itself a mass of contradictions: terrorist and warmonger, or would-be economic reformer and peacemaker? A pampered, pouting sorehead indifferent to responsibilities, or a relatively shrewd go-getter who has mastered much statecraft...
Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky was given 24 hours to leave Bulgaria after he called for President Zhelyu Zhelev's resignation. Zhirinovsky, whose far-right Liberal Democratic Party was the top vote getter in Russian parliamentary elections last month, was also denied a visa by Germany...
...League standards, this team is exceptional. By national standards, it ain't bad either--the Quakers are a weekly vote-getter in the polls but has yet to crack...