Word: grins
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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...
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...
...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...
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...
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...