Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...esteemed president continues his journey of repentance and spiritual renewal, his lawyers and aides continue the far more essential task of making excuses. And, if there is anything that the American people swallow more easily than apple pie and apologies, it is excuses. We understand--he was lonely, his appetites got the better of him, the lawsuit was politically motivated, Ken Starr is Satan...
...Kemp, CEO of the Los Angeles Community Development Bank, also believes that set-aside programs are still essential. Since 1996, his small bank (current assets: $48 million) has offered capital, lines of credit and basic services to businesses in South Central and East Los Angeles. "By enlarging the procurement pie," he says, "it has made it possible for everyone to be a part of the economy. In fact, the increased competition made better products and services." That's a color-blind mantra if ever there was one. --Reported by Patrick Cole/ Los Angeles, Sally B. Donnelly/Washington, Greg Fulton/Atlanta, Erik Gunn/Milwaukee...
...TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan, is another baby step in the right direction. "This is the beginning of a strategy of bite-size pieces of apology from Clinton, rather than another major speech," says Branegan. "Admitting fault and personal guilt is not his strength." But after eating humble pie with top Democrats Wednesday morning -- and getting a positive reaction -- the President has apparently decided to take his contrition show on the road. And not a moment too soon. Once Congress starts sifting through a ton of material relating to his private foibles, Clinton may have to get even better...
...first time. So far, they have been just friends, but now what? The cute one, topless and asleep, rolls over against the smart one, who suddenly dares to hope and grazes his love object with his fingers. A caress leads to a kiss--and then the cutie pie bolts up awake. Comedy! Drama! Horror! And, since the characters are both men, in a scene that stirs a smiling shudder of recognition in viewers straight and gay: Breakthrough...
...health care? Could they trade their skills for medical treatment? After all, barter may have fallen on hard times, but it's an American tradition: for decades people exchanged services for goods, not dollars. A country doctor's fee might be a bushel of potatoes or a freshly baked pie...