Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning, during the pretrial proceedings, Timothy McVeigh would try to greet Beth Wilkinson with a smile and a hello, a tactic he used with other people in court. Each time, however, she would shoot back a cold glare. The federal prosecutor would allow no attempts at cordiality to mitigate her mission: to convict McVeigh and get him sentenced to death. Last week, after his defense had presented parental pleas for mercy, Wilkinson's words thundered through the courtroom, demanding the life of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. "All of us can feel compassion for his parents, but they...
...nation's biggest advertisers have a new slogan for their advertising agencies: Get Lost! Consider United Airlines, which dumped Leo Burnett, the giant Chicago agency that created one of the most memorable ad campaigns in aviation history, "Fly the friendly skies." Now it's bye-bye, friendliness--hello, hostility. United hired Minneapolis, Minn., maverick Fallon McElligott to handle the carrier's $60 million U.S. account. Fallon's in-your-face ads trash air travel, playing up canceled flights, lousy food and surly personnel. The punch line, "Rising," implies that compared with the rest of the airline industry, United is heading...
...Loker Commons, every young black passerby stops by the booth Ashong occupies to say hello, high-five him, or give him a hug. Ashong has a few white friends, but he is not immune to Harvard's segregated social life...
Then he got a phone call from his father in mid-January. "Hello Derrick, this is Daddy," Ashong recalls, imitating his father's British-Ghanaian accent. "I got a call from this woman about a movie. What the hell is going...
...forever--deans, professors and house masters. Their dedication to this place is extraordinary. They have seen thousands of students pass through Tercentenary Theatre each June and have advised many of them in office hours. They attend home football games. They sit on the steps of University Hall and say hello on sunny days. People like them, repositories of Harvard lore, are necessary for our university to keep hold of its traditions...