Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report, investigator Cole said the committee felt that Gingrich had violated his agreement not to supervise a campaign in his own defense. But the Martins, as well as McDermott, may have violated state and federal law, which makes it a crime to listen in deliberately to a telephone call or to disclose the contents of one that you know has been overheard illegally. fbi Director Louis Freeh ordered an investigation. McDermott had to recuse himself from the Gingrich deliberations. As a diversion from Newt's troubles, the tape tangle was "like a gift from heaven," says a senior House Republican...
Alan Henney likes to listen. "I primarily listen to police, fire, the Federal Government and some business users," says the 29-year-old graduate student, who lives with his parents in suburban Maryland. "The Park Police, the Secret Service, Smithsonian security, the Federal Protective Service, the U.S. marshals, the Drug Enforcement Administration." He pauses. "The shops at Union Station, campus security, building security officers, the security guards at Fort Lincoln Cemetery...
...long time ago, in the days when the young might get stoned and watch 2001 and listen as Also Sprach Zarathustra blared in crescendo, the millennium was heavy. It was far out. It was also far off. But now, here it is--just on the other side of Bill Clinton's new term, at the end of his famous bridge. Did Dick Morris arrange this...
...semiemployed accountant in Lima's lower-middle-class Pueblo Libre neighborhood. "I don't agree with Nestor Cerpa taking hostages," he said. "But the embarrassing thing about this crisis is that Cerpa has become a sort of interlocutor between Fujimori and our economic problems. Maybe Fuji will listen to us a little more after this and not be so rigid...
...sideburns that seem to have missed the memo that the '70s are over; his eyes are big and wide, giving his face a look of almost perpetual astonishment and naivete. Although he's just 26, Beck's voice has an old-soul weariness. His lyrics can be, at first listen, silly and playful, but they carry an underlying seriousness. His 1993 hit single, Loser, managed to be simultaneously humorous and a bit tragic with its self-deprecating, self-destructive refrain, "I'm a loser baby/ So why don't you kill...