Word: manila
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to his well-stuffed Rolodex, McAllister brings to his job considerable expertise. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale (where he specialized in American diplomatic history), he went to Manila as a Luce scholar and to London as a Marshall scholar, earning a Ph.D. in history and writing the memoirs of U. Alexis Johnson, a former Under Secretary of State. He returned to Yale for a law degree, clerked for a federal judge in San Francisco and worked as a corporate lawyer in New York City -- but kept being drawn back to journalism, reporting...
...opening for the Spinanes and Tiger Trap, two other really good bands). Then go to a record store and ask--ASK--for Ankle Deep, which will probably be either in a glass display case or in a bin with the 7" singles, since it comes in a tall manila envelope rather than a conventional square CD case--saving Harriet Records, and thus you, a few bucks on packaging. Who says underground rockers can't be practical...
Convicted of corruption in Manila, facing an 18-year sentence...
...months Gina Cruz, a Manila grandmother, played Pepsi-Cola's Numbers Fever promotion lottery, buying several bottles a day and saving the caps, in the hope that one of the numbers printed inside would win her a 1 million peso ($40,000) prize. When the magic number, 349, was announced in May 1992, Cruz was overjoyed to find she had not one but two caps bearing the winning digits. She promptly fainted...
Police and federal officials urge university affiliates to be especially wary of mail packaged in padded manila envelopes...