Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deliberately to a telephone call or to disclose the contents of one that you know has been overheard illegally. fbi Director Louis Freeh ordered an investigation. McDermott had to recuse himself from the Gingrich deliberations. As a diversion from Newt's troubles, the tape tangle was "like a gift from heaven," says a senior House Republican...
...rising tide is making the minimum wage disappear in some areas. Schnuck Markets, a 92-store grocery chain based in St. Louis, is using bounties to fill 350 vacancies ranging from bagger to deli worker. Schnuck gives $10 gift certificates to employees whose referrals are hired; plus $50 to the employee and new worker after 90 days; plus another $50 to the newcomer after six months and yet another after a year. But it's still hard to hold help in a region where the boom in tourism and riverboat gambling lets workers quit jobs on Friday and find...
...obsessed with the details and nuances of the way people talk. If you go anywhere with Mike in his car in Austin, he'll pop in a tape of some recorded conversation, some prank phone call." Adds Judge's friend, movie director Richard Linklater (Slacker): "Mike just has that gift of being tapped in. He has all these great facial expressions and voices. Ask him to re-create a lunch he had with David Geffen...
...renderings of a black preacher's rolling sermon or the colorful chit-chat among the locals in a general store, Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Mosley, the son of a black maintenance supervisor and a white Jewish mother, has, like Ellison, a nuanced appreciation for black-white relationships that goes beyond the stereotypes that mar much recent fiction by black authors. Gone Fishin', of course, is not in Invisible Man's league; few novels are. But it firmly establishes Mosley...
...individual who takes your word and purchases some of this audio doo-doo. Here's a partial list that your readers may embrace without worrying that you might be trying to push someone to the forefront out of some sort of pathetic attempt to exclude artists who have a gift of musicianship: Shawn Colvin, A Few Small Repairs; Sting, Mercury Falling; Keb 'Mo', Just Like You; Beatles, Anthology III; Paula Cole, This Fire; Lyle Lovett, The Road to Ensenada; and Chris Isaak, Baja Sessions. CARL WIDING, Program Director KINK-FM Portland, Oregon...