Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some of them even wear suits to work. And true, all of them are working at jobs that could conceivably be permanent. But only the tiniest number of them actually think that those jobs will be permanent--or that anything about their current lives might be permanent, for that matter...
Charlton Heston thrusts out his chiseled jaw, tips his eagle-beaked profile toward the light, narrows his steely eyes and folds his arms akimbo. "'Hard' is what I do best," says the veteran actor, explaining how he poses for photographs. "I don't do 'nice.'" No matter that Heston is, in fact, in pain, only days away from a hip-replacement operation, and has been limping around his Beverly Hills home in stretch Speedo slippers. No matter that a toupee, capped teeth and a partly unbuttoned shirt reveal a touch of vanity. At 73, the man best known for playing...
...year and that in only 5% of cases were defenders harmed after they brandished their gun. But such findings were based on narrow surveys whose scope, upon re-examination by gun-control advocates, could easily have been exaggerated. Thus, discerning the benefits of packing heat has largely remained a matter of conscience, not science...
...legal counsel. "Time was closing in on us," says Armstrong, who at 59 remains a man in a hurry who relaxes by roaring down roads on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Concurs Ken McGee, a vice president for the Gartner Group consulting firm: "This merger is a matter of pure survival for AT&T. There is no other chance behind this...
...hadn't. He still believed in fighting fair and bloodless -- "I don't believe this kind of thing [the violent Western] is 'entertainment' no matter how you look at it" -- and he still sang the old country songs, releasing an album of old and new material in 1991 that featured country superstar Clint Black...