Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...penny from the property-tax rate. But Ocean City is a "crab-and-beer town, a pizza-and-popcorn town," say the town elders, and they draw the line at gambling. If Donald Trump tried to open up shop, the mayors agree, he would run into a hornet's nest...
...like F-16 and F/A-18 attack fighters to Latin America, because most military strongmen wanted the jets for flybys over the presidential palaces they occupied. Every American President since Carter supported the prohibition. If Lockheed Martin, which produces the F-16 Falcon, and McDonnell Douglas, which manufactures the F/A-18 Hornet, wanted in on the Latin American arms market, they had to change that policy...
...Thomas ("Mack") McLarty, who is Clinton's special envoy on Latin American trade issues. Chile, the executives warned, would probably take delivery on new jets by 2000, an election year, when Gore could ill afford to see jobs lost in California, Florida, Texas and Ohio, where the Falcon and Hornet are built...
...National Journal called Boehlert the Green Hornet for his efforts to make government care about the environment, sometimes contrary to the G.O.P. agenda. But the battleground in this race may be the economy. The 23rd District lost 1,400 jobs when Griffiss Air Force Base was scaled back in 1993, and Boehlert is pushing to make the Rome Laboratory a National Law Enforcement Technology Center...
George Clooney must look good in a mask too. The ER star's about to sign on to play the Green Hornet, grandnephew of the Lone Ranger, who also runs around fighting crime in disguise. Clooney will get $3 million for the role, according to Variety. Jason Scott Lee is in talks to play sidekick Kato (no relation...