Word: piker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power, not justice, that determines who gets arrested. Noriega was no worse than the Haitian dictators. He was certainly far less a killer, torturer and oppressor than Fidel Castro, who is the toast of every capital he visits. And he is a piker beside the butchers of Tiananmen Square, who are received with deference everywhere they...
...might seem a piker compared with Vegas entrepreneurs. They not only think big and spend bigger; they are also eager to itemize their profligacy. No Broadway musical has cost as much as $20 million, and if it did, no Broadway producer would say so. But Vegas is a place where gamblers brag about their winnings, and their losings. Liberace--the patron saint of Gaud Almighty--used to motor onstage in his Rolls-Royce and declare that the Riviera Hotel was paying him $50,000 a week; he was like a child showing his mother a report card full...
...Crimson's leading scorer against Brown was junior Erin Piker, who filled the net with five goals to pace the Crimson victory. Piker also added six goals against Amherst the next...
Drawing upon U.S. and international sources, the anthology's contents run the gamut from Spain's most popular funny, "Firmin and Piker," by Javier Mariscal; to the dark ruminations of New York's Art Spiegelman, author of the Auschwitz comic book Maus. Although somewhat skimpy in its explanations of the represented artists' forebearers and influences, the book provides a well-planned overview of different comics' genres...
...uplift U.S. elections. Once again this year, politics has degenerated into a duel of negative TV spots, even before the desperation tactics that usually erupt in late October. In California, a barrage of blistering commercials in the Governor's race conveys the impression that Charles Keating was a piker in the S&L scandal compared with Republican Pete Wilson and Democrat Dianne Feinstein. Texas voters are so dispirited by the ugliness of the gubernatorial shoot-out that both candidates probably could be defeated by General Santa Anna...