Word: hooked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, Charlestown Fisherman captures a man, pensive and alone, deside a curved railing which separates him from the water. He turns away from the photographer and audience while he puts bait on his fishing hook, underscoring the privacy and calm of the scene. Here the man is not in opposition to the railing, a barrier between him and the ocean, but acts alone beside the metal structure...
ReRe Avegno, a real estate agent in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb, remembers exactly when her phone started ringing off the hook: a few days into the allied air campaign, when it became clear that the U.S.-led forces in the gulf had gained the upper hand. As long as the possibility existed of a protracted and ruinously expensive war, many Americans were frozen in an anxious stasis in which they were delaying major financial decisions. Says John Tuccillo, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors: "With the flush of victory, people are going out looking for houses." Some...
...force against Iraq, but many say they did so only because they wished to give economic sanctions more time to work; once the resolution passed, they voiced clear support for U.S. troops. Republican spokesmen have made it clear, though, that they will not let the Democrats off the hook. Says former Drug Control Director William Bennett, who now serves informally as a G.O.P. adviser: "The votes for or against this war were important political acts, and they should have consequences...
...never seen anything like this before in my life." Experts say dousing the fires and restoring the fields could cost up to $15 billion over the next five years. Plenty of U.S. oil-field companies like the sound of that. "The phone's been ringing off the hook with people looking for work," says T.B. O'Brien, president of the oil-field engineering firm O'Brien Goins Simpson, which is coordinating the fire-fighting campaign...
...found that only the aged, ailing California Senator Alan Cranston, 76, had engaged in "impermissible conduct" in which "fund raising and official activities ! were substantially linked." The case of the Keating One will be referred to the whole Senate for possible action. The other four are officially off the hook...