Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overtime and entertainment allowances, are having to spend time with wives and children they have barely spoken to for years -- sometimes to their mutual shock. Japanese businessmen are traditionally so lost outside their offices and clubs that many a wife refers to a retired husband as a "damp leaf" -- a sticky annoyance to a woman tidying up a walk...
...trying to say, 'I smoke weed, so everyone else should,' " explains Basehead leader Michael Ivey. "It's more a form of honesty. It's part of my life." Onstage, the Southern rockers the Black Crowes perform under a 48-ft. by 24-ft. banner emblazoned with a marijuana leaf. Says the group's lead singer, Chris Robinson, who posed for the cover of High Times magazine smoking a joint: "Pot is an essential part of life on the road...
...Leaf through the "Summer Jobs" binder for the 14th time, knowing full well the listings were last updated in 1987 and you will never get a job anyway unless you are a minority and willing to work 90 hours per week in Cincinatti (unpaid, of course...
Through a second round of questioning, Baird remained calm. At noon, Senator Herb Kohl brusquely inquired, "Have you asked yourself whether or not you might serve . . . best by withdrawing your nomination?" Baird replied, "I don't believe that would be appropriate," leaving tea-leaf readers to divine that Clinton's support remained intact. During the lunch break, White House aides Bernie Nussbaum and Howard Paster sprinted to the Hill to take Baird's pulse. The result: full-speed ahead, Baird told them. But during that same break, Senators of both parties caucused, and the mood perceptibly began to shift against...
...avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. Funk found no "conspiracy" to damage Clinton. But he said Steven Berry, the department's Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, coached Republican Congressman Gerald B. Solomon on how to word a Sept. 29 letter that would provide State with a fig leaf of official justification for a search of Clinton's files. The next day Elizabeth Tamposi, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, seized on Solomon's "request" and a handful of press inquiries to justify a rushed two-day hunt through 10 sets of confidential records in Washington, London and Oslo. Funk...