Word: ms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find it very sad that middle-class America is filled with Martha wannabes. It is not Ms. Stewart's business acumen, independence or insistence on quality that is being emulated. Women are becoming slaves to style and obsessive do-it-from-scratch projects. Somehow interior design has become confused with having an interior life. KAREN SAGE-STOCKWELL Danville, Calif...
...Generalissimo worried? Gates said nothing, but perhaps his reply should have been along the lines of the famous newspaper scene in Citizen Kane: ?That?s right, Ms. Reno. I lost a million dollars today. I expect to lose a million dollars tomorrow. And the day after that, and the day after that. You know, at a million dollars a day, I?ll have to close Microsoft in ... three hundred thousand years...
...Wellesley education and Yale law degree put her onstage (as the student speaker at her college commencement and later as one of the nation's "most influential" lawyers), but they also moved her to the side when her husband's Arkansas constituency chafed at her insistence on being called Ms. Rodham. They put her in a new kind of spotlight as the victorious spouse of this nation's first Baby Boomer President, but she stepped off the stage again when her mishandling of health-care reform almost crippled his presidency...
Okasi, the parade's president, said she originally wanted to organize a pageant along the lines of a Mr. and Ms. Harvard contest. But then she said she realized that "the qualities we would be looking for [in a pageant contestant] go beyond that...
...Perhaps it was never the most pertinent part of Paula Jones' lawsuit, but it was certainly the most salacious ? and the one that attracted the most popular attention. Now it appears to be crumbling. A lawyer for President Clinton has finally said that he has learned what "distinguishing characteristic" Ms. Jones claims she saw on the presidential body ? and that it doesn't exist. Jones' legal team faxed Clinton attorney Robert Bennett a copy of her detailed affidavit describing what she claims to have seen on the President's private zone that night in an Arkansas hotel room...