Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...White's office has even talked with some who were not so lucky in Clinton's final days, including Michael Milken, the junk-bond pioneer of the high-flying '80s. Milken's patron on the pardon front was Ron Burkle, a generous Democratic donor, but as soon as it became known that Milken, who served nearly two years in prison and paid more than $1 billion in connection with his conviction on six counts of securities fraud, was on the list of potential clemency recipients, loud protests from securities regulators and others apparently doomed the effort. White is presumably trying...
...light, consisting mostly of tribute. But the Jews had been independent for a century before the imperial conquest, and many hoped to return to that state. In recognition of this, above the Temple's northwestern corner stood the city's great Roman garrison, the Antonia, named after Herod's patron Mark Antony and housing between 2,000 and 3,000 soldiers...
...saying underage drinking should be permitted, nor am I confirming any accusations that it is occurring. I, even as a non-Grille patron, am saying that the Grille is too valuable as one of the few social venues on a campus where the social atmosphere is diminishing to just watch it leave or worse yet encourage its ousting...
...call them door-checkers," Brainard said. "We don't train staff in apprehension of suspects. We don't permit them to exert force against any library patron because they are not trained in those techniques and it could create a greater risk...
Blackburn and another patron then took Fan out of the office while Peters called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...