Word: hovered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...businessman and broker, Khashoggi has as a trademark the exquisite and exotic women who seem to hover around him. He has often been accused of hiring expensive call girls to seduce the men he is attempting to do business with. He amiably confesses to paying for escorts to liven up business functions. The women, he suggests, sweeten the deal. "They lend beauty and fragrance to the surroundings," he says, while sitting on the terrace of his Marbella house overlooking Gibraltar. "They are also intelligent hostesses. I challenge anyone to come forward and prove that I ever told him the girls...
...Sacrifice after a junk-food diet of Hollywood movies is like ducking out of a carnival to visit a medieval crypt. You are pulled out of time and into a sacred stillness. The images, handsomely sculpted, address themes of life and death and life after death. Gods and gargoyles hover in the cramped air, dwarfing all human anxieties. Man is a mite here, pitiable in his ignorance of what matters, or else vainglorious in his quest to find the answers to riddles beyond his solving...
...employment picture has improved, even in the face of sluggish growth. In August the U.S. jobless rate fell from 6.9% to 6.8%. It was the third successive monthly decline, and it brought the unemployment rate to its lowest level since January. The economists expect the jobless rate to hover around 6.7% through the end of 1987, far below the 9.7% peak reached...
...dealers have paid up and rolled out with their vans. The rug merchants, who pool their buying to keep the price down, have loaded their camels and saddled up. Minor dealers hover for scraps. "The closer you get to the sale, the worse the piece you want looks," says one. "You have to ignore your doubts." He looks doubtful, but he spends $250 on a Tlingit basket that he can almost certainly resell for $400. Withington knocks himself out to move a large wooden cheese box for an outrageous $300, and with a final handclap -- one clever scamp applauding himself...
...some 110,000 people whose careers would be curtailed by the erroneous results of an unneccessary drug test. Even if they were later to be vindicated, their negative test results would undoubtedly "be noted" in the back of their superiors' minds. The cloud of suspicion would surely hover over them for the rest of their lives...