Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sudden, three successive deaths shake-up the slumbering small town. First a high school student, then a homeless man and finally Adele Baraclough the local art patron are all found dead. The murders would seem unrelated except for the JUST ASK MONTY campaign pin that graces each corpse. Monty Monteagle, the newly-elected reform-minded mayor, is just one of the town's many suspects...
...like Richard Kreimer with a storefront drop-in center that's free of bureaucracy," he says. "Let's face it. Most of the current system is set up to perpetuate itself. It doesn't work." The American Library Association dedicated part of its winter meeting to a seminar on patron conduct. "That's inspired by the Richard Kreimer case," says Richard Kreimer...
Some Seattlites suggested that the Nordstrom family buy the Mariners or that Boeing subsidize the team in some way. Most serious baseball fans prayed that the patron saint of Seattle, Microsoft whiz kid Bill Gates, would turn out to have played Little League before turning to computers...
Officials said that proceeds from the museum's gift shop as well as patron donations are being contributed to public service programs created by the museum's directors to encourage Boston high school students to remain in school...
...Irene may be the patron saint of peace, but last week her image provoked an unseemly squabble. Two days before Christmas, thieves stole a small jewel- encrusted painting of the saint from St. Irene Greek Orthodox Cathedral, which is located in Astoria, a predominantly Greek neighborhood in New York City. The icon, which congregationers say began to shed tears at the prospect of the Persian Gulf war, is valued by the church at $800,000. Church leaders went on television to plead for the icon's return. New York Mayor David Dinkins -- and the Mafia -- joined the appeal...