Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They know your last name. First name. Middle initial. Phone number. E-mail. House. Room. Roommate. Concentration. Hometown. They know all. And They're coming...
...month installments, then a steep price--on condition that he would inherit the property outright the moment she died. Last week, 30 years older and $180,000 poorer, Raffray, 77, expired on Christmas Day. His client, Jeanne Calment, celebrated the holiday with a sumptuous hotel banquet in her hometown of Arles. "We all make bad deals in life," she joked to Raffray when she turned 120 early last year. She is now officially the oldest person in the world...
Once Gingrich was selected as a Man of the Year candidate, we also drew on the work of a team of TIME correspondents to help paint the Speaker in all his brilliant, strange plumage. Doug Waller gathered childhood stories from "Newtie's" hometown of Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. Elaine Shannon and Adam Cohen looked into Gingrich's Southern ties. Wendy Cole hung out with "Kit" Gingrich, the Speaker's outspoken mother. Jeff Birnbaum followed Newt's money trail. In the meantime, Gingrich's heady first 100 days were documented close-up by TIME's prizewinning photographer P.F. Bentley. "P.F.'s passion...
...respective Houses a bill called the Fans Rights Act, which would 1) grant a limited antitrust exemption shielding a professional sports league from a lawsuit if the league blocks a relocation, and 2) require a team intending to move to give 180 days' notice, during which time the jilted hometown could try to induce it to stay. Houston Mayor Bob Lanier, who is about to lose the Oilers to Nashville, said he simply didn't trust the N.F.L. "The foxes are guarding the chickens," said Lanier, "and while they keep saying, 'We're nice foxes,' I wonder what those feathers...
...Blue Eyes of Yonta' opens the Festival with a mild view of Guinea-Bissau twenty years after the freedom movement's successful revolt against the Portuguese colonial government. Director Flora Gomes focuses on Yonta, a beautiful store clerk, who attracts attention as she walks through her hometown. One young man, Ze, becomes so enamored by her presence that he copies poems which praise 'her blue eyes,'--she has brown eyes--and sends them...