Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though scores of first-years had passed through the Union's old distinguished dining room, in its last years it had grown tawdry. The famous butter-patted ceiling was looking more dirty than distinguished; the paint was peeling off the walls; the rotunda was encased with God-awful green-blue floral curtains; and the tray return area was a steam-filled Rube Goldberg contraption...
Weld finished with a jubilant exclamation, returning to the basketball analogy to tell students, "Inside or outside the paint, you'll score. I guarantee...
...promising young member named Al Gore was selling the intriguing concept of an "information superhighway." But Dingell is far from alone. Commerce Senators who have reviewed the thousands of grant applications pouring in complain that schools are attempting to use the program to buy everything from carpeting and paint to computers that exceed the power of those at NASA. What's more, lawmakers grouse, why should the Federal Government pay for something many schools would do on their...
...legally, considering that such a 'secret-service privilege' was utterly without precedent. But it's another major victory for Ken Starr. "He's yet to lose a procedural battle in the courts," says, "and each one makes his tactics a little harder to criticize." President Clinton was quick to paint the decision as still more evidence of a right-wing world gone mad. "It never occurred to anybody that anyone would ever be so insensitive to the responsibility of the Secret Service that this kind of legal question would arise," he said moments after the decision...
...narrow room, a meter and a half wide, decorated with the awkward minimalism that passes for modern chic in the still Communist world: peeling white paint, tilting buffet tables, schoolroom chairs bolted together into haphazard couches. But the attraction here isn't the decor; it's the machines: a beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost...