Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows exactly what he's doing," says former federal prosecutor Donald Heller. "This is the ultimate opportunity to take action against society. One man against the Federal Government, the federal judiciary, the FBI, the Department of Justice, creating chaos. What a perfect opportunity for a person with the mind bent of the Unabomber's manifesto...
Though he denies that the IRS is being used against Jones, Bennett wouldn't mind a review of the tax-exempt status of the Rutherford Institute, the conservative religious-liberty group paying part of her legal expenses. In an attempt to prove that Rutherford is pursuing nothing more than a political attack against the President, last month Bennett subpoenaed its financial records. He's also charging that donations to the separate Paula Jones Legal Fund are being diverted to pay for her hair care, jewelry and clothing. Institute leaders call the subpoena an attempt to harass them for defending Jones...
...they have taken heroin in the past year, double the proportion in the early '90s. Researchers believe more kids are using it because it is now sold in purer form--pure enough to snort or smoke. Like Ted, most teens will not inject, but they don't mind taking a puff or a sniff. (Injecting heroin is the quickest way to experience its rush, but the drug still packs a punch when snorted or smoked...
...They act on stock tips from their nitwit in-laws, send money to brokers they've never met, check their mutual-fund balances too often and lose patience too soon. But my guess is that this year's most popular gaffe will be the way investors categorize in their mind the past few years of robust U.S. stock gains. Some lost souls will view the spoils as perfectly normal and expect more of the same. God bless them. But even those with a sense of history may regard the period as merely unusual when, in fact, the stretch is unprecedented...
Waters poses a delicious what-if. "Even though I didn't agree with some of his politics, I'm sorry that he didn't get the White House," he says. "In my mind it would have been wonderful anarchy to have Sonny Bono as President...