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Word: grinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smiling Stephen in his M*A*S*H shirt, shouting racist epithets to incite the crowd. I silently compared the two men, Stephen and this massive ruffian--both black, both poor, both probably with a reason to hate whites. But Stephen's eyes sparkled above his childish grin. The man's eyes had narrowed, and his skin had deep furrows from a permanent frown on his deep set jaw. And I watched the beefy, red-faced white police, armed with shields and jackboots, herding people--most particularly black people--as if they were cattle headed to slaughter...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: POSTCARD FROM LONDON | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

With his Bruce Jenner hair and gummy Donny Osmond grin, Edwards presents a striking contrast to Faircloth, whose jowly awkwardness in the spotlight is part of his appeal--but can also make him seem a throwback to a waning, good-ole-boy era in North Carolina politics. As usual, and for good reason, the Edwards-Faircloth contest is being cast as a battle between rural conservatives and a new North Carolina, the one centered on Charlotte, the state's thriving financial center, and booming Research Triangle Park, a high-tech enclave that encompasses Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Republican Who's Taking His Medicine | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...fairly tame and doesn't like the food, but he is making good money dyeing orange the hair of the local youth at $25 a treatment, to create that Hong Kong fashion look. "It is all about money in China these days, isn't it?" he says with a grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Summit: The Pulse Of China | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

From his 26 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Rubin said he learned life is a cocktail of chance and "intensity." With a wily grin Rubin added that everyone must be prepared to embrace the unexpected and profit from...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CLASS DAY 1998 | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

Sometimes in business you just have to grin and bear the odd $100 million loss, and that's what PanAmSat senior VP Robert Bednarek is preparing to do with Wednesday's announcement that the company isn't likely to recover its wayward Galaxy 4 satellite. The numbers are not pretty: The company had insured Galaxy 4 for about $150 million, but it will cost an estimated $250 million to construct, launch and insure a replacement next year. That's not even counting losses from service disruptions brought on by Galaxy 4's demise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PanAmSat's $100 Million Problem | 5/21/1998 | See Source »

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