Word: orinda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such celebrity hipsters as director Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Rodman and rocker Lenny Kravitz have painted their nails for years, but now nine-year-old boys are showing up at nail-polish parties in Dallas and Los Angeles. High school coaches from Orinda, Calif., to North Stamford, Conn., have ordered dozens of bottles in school colors for football players to wear on game day. "Young people in the 1990s are not as scared about issues of sexual orientation," says Chicago hairdresser James Braun, 20. "The younger crowd thinks it's stupid that only women can wear skirts and nail polish...
...tells us we have to absorb the loss. Even when insurance covers part of the cost, we and people like us still have to pay. When the insurance pays, who does Quittner think pays for the insurance? Right. We are all out those many, many cents. ANN E. GILL Orinda, Calif...
...wake up and see the extent to which he is being ripped off? And what will it take to make this industry compete like others? Do we have to invoke Congress to pass laws that will protect us from robbery? How else can this be described? JOHN A. PETERSON Orinda, California...
Yogesh Gandhi, a businessman from Orinda, California, related to the Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, gave $325,000 to the D.N.C. in May after presenting Clinton with the Mahatma Gandhi World Peace award. It would be legal for Gandhi as a naturalized citizen to make such a contribution, as long as it was his own money. Gandhi claims to be independently wealthy, but tax records obtained by ABC News indicate that he and his foundation owe more than $10,000 in back taxes and that he does not even own his home. Whom could he be representing? The Wall Street...
AREN'T WE REALLY TALKING ABOUT QUALITY of life vs. quantity of life? My aunt is in her 80s, I am in my 50s. She dances; I run--on estrogen. JILL SWEITZER Orinda, California...