Word: hang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arena too many more times, the favorable trend in the polls will come to an abrupt halt. And so the Speaker sits tight, sounding statesmanlike, careful not to overplay his hand. If the release of the videotape doesn't backfire this week, all he has to do is hang on through Election Day, betting that a bigger margin in the House next year will give him more leverage with the President's lawyers after November...
...National Finals Rodeo for 25 years until 1997, almost had the lucrative, week-long competition back for June 1999, much to the pleasure of the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club. But once it became clear that the rodeo's big-money sponsor, U.S. Tobacco, planned to hang signs in the arena and hand out free samples of that cowboy staple, Copenhagen and Skoal chewing tobacco, the American Lung Association took out full-page ads in the local newspaper in protest. This prompted M.S.U. president MIKE MALONE to invoke the new campus antitobacco rule and cancel the event...
...Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), the people who brought you the Pink Book, the Science Center Help Desk and a 50-megabyte quota for your Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) account, among other goodies. Don't call me with your computer problems, though. Really. I'll hang...
...price. At Halls Middle School in Knoxville, half the students in Gay Clapp's sixth-grade science class last year were classified as having "special needs." One day last spring, after giving her class a plant diagram to color, Clapp watched as a group of boys got up to hang out at the pencil sharpener, and other students wandered the room for supplies; for a few moments, all order broke down. "It's overwhelming," says Clapp, who has taught for 39 years. "Dealing with this many kids and this many different needs wears you out. And by a long shot...
Talk about a sleeper. Not only has "There's Something About Mary" managed to hang in the top 10 grossing movies two months after its initial release, but it finished No. 1 at the box office Labor Day weekend, earning about $11.6 million. It was helped by a singular lack of competition. Only one new wide-release entered the fray this past weekend: "Knock Off," a martial arts movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, which opened in fourth place with a humble $5.6 million. "Blade," which had spent the previous two weeks at No. 1, slipped to second place with...