Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snarky Will & Grace, the book of heartfelt life lessons from dying professor Morrie Schwartz (Jack Lemmon) to his ex-student, sportswriter Mitch Albom (Hank Azaria), has become phenomenon enough to merit a punch line (a wealthy client fires Will, blithely telling him to read Albom's book and appreciate all he still has). But for the unironic masses who've kept this memento Morrie a best seller for more than 100 weeks, ABC has needlepointed an Oprah Winfrey Presents telepic that's as earnest as life is short. However worthy the book, its carpe diem aphorisms don't translate well...
...lovable, nerdy, self-made billionaire, but consider the facts. Having bludgeoned the companies that threatened him, Gates now poses as a man whose only joy is promoting innovation and competition. If his practices aren't monopolistic, then John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould were just misunderstood capitalists. JACK MORROW Long Beach, Calif...
...Missouri bushwhackers, Jake Roedel (watchful Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich, parading what may be star quality or merely attitude), start out with a few ideals--war's first casualty. They also serially entertain the young widow Sue Lee (Jewel, the singer). They are idiot savants at making war--without flair or even instinct but with an awful proficiency. At making love they are just idiots. They haven't had the example of the movies or even mush literature to teach them courtship. They hide their feelings as clumsily as they express them. "So, do you want...
...will it work? The troubles with Boston Market may have proved that people simply don't want wholesome fast food. However, McDonald's has been on the move under new CEO Jack Greenberg, aquiring Tex-Mex and pizza chains in the past year. And it's not taking too much of a risk - if it can't make the 751 Boston Market franchises (which it snatched at a bargain basement price of $131 million) solvent again, it can easily convert some or all of them into McDonald's or other eateries for significantly less than the cost of building...
...test the proposition that standing on the platform like a big shot is a constitutionally protected form of expression.) At this point, New Yorkers would not be surprised to hear that someone who took a position contrary to the mayor's in a late-night discussion of how a Jack Dempsey-Rocky Marciano fight would turn out had awakened the next morning to find a municipal water-treatment plant being built on his block...