Word: gone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What strikes me is that they're dancing around the living wage, and that after three years the living wage should have gone up with inflation, so this will no longer be a living wage," she said...
...other private clients included two sons of Nigeria's recently deceased dictator, General Sani Abacha. Shortly after the general's demise last year, his wife was stopped as she tried to leave the country with 35 or so suitcases bulging with foreign currency. According to the report, with Abacha gone and Nigeria searching for money he allegedly stole, his sons urgently began to shift $39 million among various Citi accounts--with no opposition from the bank...
...production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He is a sweet, giving lad with a lot of promise. Almodovar is careful and caring in setting up this lovely couple--one could build a fine movie around them--and then he is ruthless in tearing them apart. With Esteban gone, Manuela has a mission: to grieve heroically and heal the wounds of other desperate souls. She is the ultimate organ donor. Now that her heart has been broken, she gives pieces of it to everyone...
...prostitute who has raised artifice to a philosophy. "You are more authentic," this dear creature says, "the more you resemble what you dreamed you are." Manuela helps all these women resemble their dreams on their way to transcendence, accommodation or early death. By the end, Manuela--whose son is gone and whose dreadful ex-husband poisons all he touches--has knitted her de facto sorority into a family...
Nefra Faltas, 20, a human-biology and philosophy major, could have gone to the University of Virginia as an in-state student three years ago but chose to attend the University of Toronto instead. "It was time," she decided, "to be exposed to something completely different." Rachel Polner, 21, a Denver resident, considered several institutions, including Princeton, but stopped looking at U.S. schools after the University of York in England made her an unconditional offer. She knows England well, having vacationed there during her childhood, and was pleased that she would be allowed to concentrate entirely on her chosen subject...