Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...KSFO''s J. Paul Emerson ? who was hired in order to boost the station''s dismal ratings ? was fired yesterday after an overwhelmingly negative listener response to his statements that homosexuals are "sick" and "pathetic" and people with AIDS should be quarantined. "He is not returning," Julie Hoover, a spokeswoman for the Capital Cities spokeswoman, told the Associated Press. Emerson had been criticized by many in the Bay Area, including San Francisco''s Board of Supervisors, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, a favorite target...
...static white seems exact, perfect and yet imperiled by the energy of movement. Such structures have a lot to do with the way New York City and industrial America generally were described by photography. When Walker Evans looked at the Brooklyn Bridge or Margaret Bourke-White at the Hoover Dam, they saw hieroglyphs of power; so, moving through Manhattan, did Kline. The graininess and stark contrast of Robert Frank's photos in the '50s belong, as Anfam points out, to the same take on America as Kline's paintings -- a place of raw visual possibility, of collision of opposites...
...work force of more than 20,000 by the end of the decade, ahead of the schedule the Administration set for the reductions. "Jim Woolsey was a sincere and decent man who had an impossible task," says Angelo Codevilla, an intelligence expert with the Hoover Institution. "He was a much better director than the CIA was an agency...
...most troubling unresolved issues about "congregate care" is its psychological effect. Doctors familiar with children adopted from foreign orphanages have noted delayed cognitive development, an inability to form emotional attachments and alienation. But not everyone shares that view. Richard Hoover, who met his wife Darlene 40 years ago at the Tressler Orphans Home in Loysville, Pennsylvania, says, "I really feel it was the best place to grow up. Though you had no parents, you had no worries. You always had someone to look after...
...much is at stake in the world of government that it's hard to accept that anyone deserves a second chance; why not "one strike and you're out?" Jimmy Carter never got another chance--he had to make his name on the international stage. Luckily, Herbert Hoover didn't get one either...