Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last one. There seemed to be no rules, no limits, no penalties: no handshake or photograph that was not auctioned off to a lobbyist or a casino owner. One day last week, two Democratic lobbyists ran into each other near the FBI Building. One, who works for a major oil corporation, said in exasperation, "We've given $100,000 a year to the Democratic Party for a long time. We used to be a big player. But now we don't exist...
...account, Johns dreamed of painting a large American flag, and the next morning he got up and began to do so. He would play with the flag motif for several decades more, rendering the Stars and Stripes in wax encaustic paint on newspaper collage, in oil on canvas, in bronze, pencil and lithography. His fascination with it came, in part, from his very nuanced and ironic feelings about the function of art, particularly in America and especially after Abstract Expressionism...
...shares of Wired Ventures stock, recently declared worthless. So what? Denounce Louis and Wired just because Wall Street's skepticism forced him to withdraw his public stock offering for the second time? This I will not do--though others in the press have, mistaking bad timing for snake oil, confusing hubris for venality...
...19th District is a mix of Old West machismo and Sun Belt sophistication--home to oil, Cowboy Mornings, agribusiness and Texas Tech. Like the district's economic prosperity, Combest's political success comes from expertise in old and new technologies: he was John Tower's agricultural-affairs specialist, is a member of the Agriculture Committee and chairman of the Select Intelligence Committee...
...Rockefeller, a descendent of the oil baron, is in a good position to win a third term: few have heard of his challenger, and the G.O.P. hasn't won a Senate race in West Virginia since 1956. A vocal supporter of the ill-fated Clinton health-care-reform plan, he would still like to guarantee medical coverage for every American. Rockefeller came to the state in 1964 as a VISTA volunteer and is a devoted advocate for children and family issues...