Word: offing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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By 8:45 every Thursday morning, Rev. Peter J. Gomes has descended the suspended stairwell of his grand yellow house on Kirkland Street, strolled to the Yard and taken his usual seat in Appleton Chapel.
Well, sort of. Bradley had obviously learned from the first debate, and came into this weekend loaded for Gore. Unlike two months ago, he was ready with an actual criticism of Gore's health care plan, which Bradley says isn't sufficiently inclusive. True, as slogans go, "Whom would you...
The Teamsters are about to file a civil suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act - a law often used in the past by the government to combat mob influence in labor. One target of the suit: Teamster ex-president Ron Carey, ejected from the union in 1997 after...
By trying to show that Carey's bid was a "corrupt enterprise," the suit will seek to recover some $3 million in union funds spent as a result of the election. Trumka is alleged to have steered AFL-CIO funds to the Carey campaign; he took the Fifth when called...
The Marines, always proud of their mud-and-blood traditions, will soon be tooling around in swank, new Mercedes-Benz sport-utes. The World War II-designed jeeps have finally worn out, and the Marines decided that the Mercedes Gelandewagen best meets its need for a rugged off-road vehicle...