Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present rating system was produced by a 21-member task force headed by Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Pictures Association of America (the similarity to the ratings used for motion pictures should make sense now). One of its greatest perks is that it provides an easy way for parents to screen out certain programs using a V-chip by specifying the level of programming below which they deem unacceptable. However, the system as it exists is too simple--mixing in sex, blood and curses in one ultimate rating of age-appropriateness does not provide the discriminating viewer with very...
...crashed 71%. The company lost a total of $30 billion from 1990 through 1992, a cash drain that amounted to nearly $50 million for every working day every year for three years, before the GM board finally staged the 1992 coup that installed the present management team under chairman Jack Smith...
Last week, Washington football team owner Jack Kent Cooke died. At 85 years old, he had been owner for over 20 years and, recently, after years of failed attempts, struck a deal to build a new stadium in Prince George's County, Maryland. Now fans, players and newscasters mourn his death. But as sad as it is when anyone dies, I hope that in some way his death will lead to another passing: the death of the name "Redskins...
...played well on a cold day," Holy Cross coach Jack Whalen said. "We pitched well; Nolan got that big double-play ball...
...community of shared challenges," said Jack Powers, who organizes the Monday night Stone Soup poetry series at T.T. the Bear's, of which the Ginsberg memorial reading was a part...