Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question now is how best to exploit our donation for maximum impact. We would like to see the $25,000 broken down into bags of pennies and deposited on the steps of University Hall. Maybe Dean Lewis will finally take note if he trips over a mound of our cash on his way to work...
...June 7, Kirks will be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Edward Harrington. Although the maximum fine for such a crime is seven years and fines up to $250,000, attorney's office spokesperson Samantha L. Martin said the office will recommend one year in prison and a fine...
King probably harbored some racist beliefs before he checked into Texas' 3,200-inmate, maximum-security Beto I unit. He already had a book on the Klan, stolen from his high school library. Michelle Chapman, 18, a friend, testified that she could see him becoming increasingly racist in the 10 letters he wrote her from prison between 1995 and 1997. His missives were full of vulgarities and racial slurs denouncing blacks, Jews, Hispanics and a variety of "race traitors." White women who date blacks are "whores," he said, and they should "hang from the same tree as their black boyfriends...
...your bad side. John Carpenter's supremely goofy adaptation of the merely goofy Stephen King book (The killer car is a 1957 Plymouth Fury -- get it?) is saved only by the fact that it's not the worst King auto-da-farce -- that would be the 1986 stinker Maximum Overdrive...
...already framed your college acceptance letter, researched the laminating options for your diploma and garnished mummy's windshield with H&R decals. But for true portability and maximum display value, the class ring is the quintessential trophy. After all, "life is good, wrap it around your finger and take it everywhere you go!"--or so claims the ArtCarved jewelry company, purveyor of quality class rings...