Word: janet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Neither flashy nor gregarious, he makes few speeches and cuts few ribbons, and his wife Janet makes many of her own clothes. Voinovich is pro-life, deeply pro-business and anti-casino gambling. He was the first Governor to endorse Dole. But he is not afraid of him: two weeks ago, he stunned Dole insiders by criticizing Dole's proposed repeal of the 4.3 [cent] gas-tax increase of 1993, saying the rollback distracted from the real issue of the deficit. Dole took the punch in stride, noting wryly to an aide that Voinovich "must have raised taxes." Indeed...
...JANET COOKE became an instant ethics lesson for a generation of journalists after her 1980 Pulitzer-prizewinning story on "Jimmy," an eight-year-old heroin addict, was found to have been fabricated. Now she has resurfaced in the pages of GQ magazine, telling her story to onetime colleague and lover Mike Sager. Cooke says that as a child she learned to lie as a way of avoiding her strict father's temper. Unfortunately, liars who indulge their vice publicly and get caught don't have many career options. "I'm in a situation where cereal has become a viable dinner...
...Breast Project" is the creation of Adams House artist-in-residence and tutor Janet S. Echelman...
...with salaries "in the mid five digits" he describes flee the corporate world, who will be left to pay Keillor for spinning yarns and reading poetry on public radio? The good folks of Lake Wobegon will have to put their heads together and start forming an economic-development commission. JANET ROHLER Ames, Iowa Via E-mail...
...Olympic flame last week as both Pat Sajak and Vanna White took turns carrying the torch as it began its 15,000-mile journey from Los Angeles to Atlanta. Ten thousand other people have been chosen as well, including runners, ordinary folks and such celebrities as Olympians Janet Evans and Sugar Ray Leonard. (Though Gloria Estefan hasn't quite confirmed, Billy Ray Cyrus had to decline the opportunity, and Jeopardy's Alex Trebek won't turn up till the very end.) There will be no loneliness for these long-distance runners. For the most part, they will be cocooned...