Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city falling apart. In Gert Town, a 13-square-block warren of ramshackle cottages and ! abandoned apartments, crack deals were made as children played amid broken glass and litter. As night fell, there and across the city streets emptied and residents retreated behind double-locked doors and iron grates...
...contest. In doing so, Viacom takes home some of the crown jewels of entertainment, including the Paramount film and television studios and a library of 890 movies ranging from Wayne's World and The Firm to Sunset Boulevard. Just one month earlier, Viacom and Sumner Redstone, the company's iron-willed billionaire chairman, had looked like certain losers. But thanks to frenzied financial maneuvering and a stunning and perhaps precarious alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp., the world's largest retail video-store operator, Viacom turned the battle around and put Barry Diller to rout...
...Paris, as well: the day after the blast, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and Defense Minister Francois Leotard were already calling for an / ultimatum, and Washington swiftly agreed. Transatlantic telephone conferences between Presidents Clinton and Francois Mitterrand helped iron out some minor differences. By the time NATO ministers met in Brussels Wednesday, there was a joint Franco-American proposal on the table, possibly the first in the 30-odd years since Charles de Gaulle began fulminating against "les Anglo-Saxons...
...their midst. The clan was 14 strong at her first national outing (novice division) in Kansas City, Missouri. At least two dozen will make their way to Lillehammer. But even now, when the money from Campbell's Soup and Reebok is starting to flow, the Kerrigans still pitch in, ironing their daughter's fancy dresses: Brenda, barely able to see, wields the iron, Dan guides her on where to place...
...while this may be the course of the future, the future has more than a few wrinkles to iron...