Word: mentionables
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nolan is on a path increasingly well traveled. Across the country, Catholic monasteries and convents, usually regarded as strange or the stuff of medieval myth, are besieged with would-be retreatants and booked months in advance. "Please don't mention our name," begs an abbot at a Vermont monastery where the wait for one of its 29 spaces stretches a year. "We're overwhelmed." There is even a popular guidebook, Sanctuaries, that helps readers choose a great monastery or convent. While organized church retreats are not new, what is startling is that much of the increase is in individual retreatants...
...this kind of arrangement is called, is a controversial new twist on the old, discredited practice known as payola: instead of letting songs rise or falter on their merits in the tough record marketplace, some labels are improving the odds by paying radio stations cash to play or mention their product...
...least of the company's problems. GM faces enormous challenges with its products, its market strategy, its international business and even its leadership. Many of GM's critics believe that the world's largest automaker needs another total makeover. That means dumping factories, jobs--even executives--not to mention junking some of the nameplates no longer needed in GM's shrinking empire...
...here in Raanana (an 80,000-person city just north of Jerusalem's younger, larger, secular brother Tel Aviv), "Beverly Hills 90210," "Family Matters" and "Full House" are on the menu daily, not to mention CNN. There are also some shows you might have missed the first time around, like "Mr. Rhodes" and "California Dreams." Kellogg's, Subway and Puff Daddy are household names here, and NBA basketball is followed closer than in the States. English words in Hebrew-Aramaic characters fill the newspapers, as do all-too-familiar faces--from George Clooney to Kenneth Starr...
...single mention of the character Dana Scully on the X-Files TV show? She is pop-culture proof that feminism has not necessarily "devolved into the silly." Scully is a wonderful example. She does not sleep with male co-workers, and she succeeds in a male-dominated profession not because she is a flirt but because she is intelligent, qualified and determined. She is everything I aspire to, both as a woman and as a person. CHRISTINE CHANG Calgary, Alta...