Word: okay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large room labeled "Women's Fencing," one which used to house boxing back when it enjoyed varsity standing. I ask him why the sport was relegated to club status, but he's caught up in a nostalgic thought about a return to legitimacy. "If the University would just okay it," he trails off, referring to intercollegiate boxing. "We have the ropes, the ring-it's all ready...
...away from them starting Monday ? forcing the 1 million who currently use them to go hungry, while many millions more lose their safety net. As last year's federal welfare reform starts to bite, TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera says that "immigrants are basically being told, 'It's okay for you to be here and work, but don't expect to be treated on an equitable level if you are going through hard times...
Touting no show in particular, the ABC campaign tries to convince viewers that it's okay to indulge heavily in the "harmless habit" of TV-watching, especially now that the fall season is on its way and the network desperately needs higher ratings. But the ads, trying so hard to bring an ironic hipness to the medium, are as a whole deeply contradictory and display nothing more than the network's own anxiety about the future of television. "TV is good" may be the official theme of the campaign, but there's little positive about the phrase on those yellow...
...reader's rooting interests should lie. Nelson seems a poor choice, even though he gets to tell major swatches of his story and is given some funny lines. Here is his take on California talk: "Everything on the spectrum of undesirability, from minor annoyance to universal tragedy, is okay. Anything better to any degree, all the way up to a colossal lottery jackpot or the return of Jesus--that's neat...
...Okay, Mr. President, I'll accept your apology for slavery. Now where's my 40 acres and mule? I'm referring to the land and farm animals freed slaves like my grandfather George White expected to get after the Civil War to help them support themselves and make their new liberty real. For most of them, of course, the promise never materialized, even though the Freedmen's Bureau had the authority to rent abandoned or confiscated Southern farmland to freed slaves until they could afford to buy it. If that brave promise had been kept, Mr. President, you wouldn...