Word: grandpa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spending by telecom firms softens. But Galvin has convinced Wall Street that he can keep revenues growing. Motorola stock hit a new high of $86 last week, and investors snapped up $800 million worth of bonds for Iridium, an ambitious Motorola-backed satellite project. Now that's mobile electronics. Grandpa would surely approve...
...Colby? Or had time to care? Till she was 14, Jewel Kilcher grew up in an unelectrified log cabin on an 800-acre homestead near Homer, Alaska. Her father Atz Kilcher was a folk singer, the son of a Swiss immigrant to Alaska who helped write the state charter (Grandpa Kilcher still tools around occasionally in his horse and buggy in Homer, scaring the residents). Her mother Nedra Carroll also sang and dabbled in other crafts. When Jewel was eight, her parents divorced, and her mother left for Anchorage. Jewel remained with her father, who made a living singing...
...bureaucrats lived and ate better than everyone else. We had to swear loyalty oaths to the state, call Lenin 'Grandpa Lenin,'" he says. "One year all the history exams were canceled because Gorbachev had just come to power and nobody knew what the official version was anymore...
...tortured, Byronic Wang Kuilong. Li, as Chief Yang, wavers between a delightfully arrogant rendition of the part (as he struts about unfolding and snapping shut a large gold fan) and a problematic tendency to stumble over his lines. And Patrick Wang, who plays several small parts--most notably Grandpa Guo, the New Park gardener who first finds Hawk and tells him the park's history--is a powerful actor both in large parts and as a character performer. He could, perhaps, have been better used in one of the larger roles...
...known as Prince has made his long-awaited first appearance, and it didn't come cheap. PRINCE MICHAEL JACKSON JR. earned more than $2 million for sleeping. That's what Dad reportedly charged the British tabloid OK! for photos of Prince, named after JACKO's maternal grandpa. The money is said to be going to charity. Inside the magazine, mom DEBBIE ROWE says of her husband, "Fatherhood has brought out a very protective streak in him." Jacko, who also sold the photos to the National Enquirer, says, "I want my son to live a normal life." Nice start...