Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offenders are required to attend smoking court, presided over once a month by Broward County Court Judge Steven Shutter. On a recent Monday, more than 100 teens, parents in tow, waited to plead their cases. Nerdy kids in starched white shirts and ties stood next to parents who seemed poised to throttle them. A teen with a pierced chin and purple hair sneaked out to the parking lot during a break for a quick smoke. Instead of intimidating the youths, Judge Shutter tried to keep the mood light. "Don't come back and visit," he joked to some before moving...
...wide receiver from Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., was supremely talented: at 6 ft. 4 in. he was speedy and sure-handed. But 19 NFL teams had passed over Moss in the draft because of a record that included a couple of arrests, a probation violation and a one-month stint in jail...
What I enjoyed most about my conversations with John Campbell was that they hardly existed. We spoke--at the post office, at the village store, whenever he pulled over to the curb on his bike--two, three times a month. But we said very little. In the still, blank autumn afternoons like these, our silence abetted the season. One of us would open with some typically male, moderately hearty greeting; the other would follow with an observation about essentially nothing, like the lowering sky; the other would grunt or nod; John would pedal away, and that would be that...
More than 400,000 medicare beneficiaries received a "Dear John" letter last month, but it wasn't from their sweethearts. It was from their HMOs. Thanks to increasing medical costs and decreasing federal reimbursements, taking care of patients over 65 is not so profitable a business as it was in the early 1990s. So as of Dec. 31, more than 90 HMOs across the U.S.--including Aetna, Humana and Oxford--will stop serving Medicare customers in certain regions around the country...
...surprise to anyone who's been watching the computer-gaming world during the past year. Software programs that simulate hunting have dominated the charts ever since GT Interactive created the original Deer Hunter this past January; four hunt-and-shoot titles were in the Top 10 last month...