Word: loops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bridgeport whites began to feel abandoned when Mayor Daley departed the family seat in 1993 and purchased a new home on the city's tony South Loop. "You can feel a lot of fear going through the neighborhood," says Dominic A. Pacyga, a historian at Columbia College who grew up near Bridgeport. "People say to themselves, 'Is this another nail in the coffin?' They feel that it's not home anymore...
...Secret! and True Romance. Yet the look stops just short of drop-dead handsome. Its steely seriousness--all that grit and drive with no hint of easy humor--suggests less Elvis Presley than Elvis Stojko. If Kilmer is to execute the actor's equivalent of a quadruple toe loop, it won't be from movie-star grace but from a triumph of the will...
...First Lady who offers a back channel. "Send them to me," she says. "I'll see that they get to him. Use blank sheets of paper without any letterhead or other identifying characteristics. Just the date and your initials." Writes Reich: "Now I have my own loop." But of course, he didn't really. At one point, Reich describes waiting in a small anteroom outside the Oval Office with economic advisers Robert Rubin, Laura D'Andrea Tyson and Gene Sperling, only to learn from CNN that Clinton had fired chief of staff Mack McLarty. "Our distress has nothing...
...approved by our Insurance Office, which must provide the necessary assurances to our Insurers every year that PBHA is in compliance with the safety standards they impose. For this reason our agreement with PBHA provides for University control on matters of safety, and Dean Kidd must be "in the loop" on such policy matters. PBHA's failure to consult with her is extremely problematic, as adoption of inadequate safety standards would jeopardize the University's insurance coverage and would endanger those served by PBHA's programs...
...other bookstores that can afford to slash prices aren't being cut out of the loop. Each department and professor can independently decide which bookstore to go through. Most choose the Coop because they have both a commitment and the facilities to provide the 1,000 Bibles, of which another bookstore could be wary. But there is no monopoly in spite of appearances. The Coop solicits book lists and the professors. Perhaps in small classes professors could deal with a different bookstore that could offer lower prices but there isn't a set arrangement with other stores. They could send...