Word: plaines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...however, they have been denied membership at the golf club at the Country Club of Louisiana. The reason? "It's just plain racism," says No Limit's general counsel, Edwin Hawkins. "What other reason could it be?" (The golf club has other African-American members.) Hawkins says the chilly reception has extended to everything from the "300% premiums" they are being charged to build their new recording studio to a flurry of business-related lawsuits against them. "We don't feel," he says, "that we have been received as citizens of the community...
...other suspended executive, Lucy Edwards, is married to a shady businessman named Peter Berlin, who authorities have linked, through his company Benex Worldwide, to reputed Russian mobster/arms dealer Semion Mogilevitch. All this makes the Bank of New York look either complicit or stupid - and the IMF look just plain stupid, at least in the eyes of its congressional critics, who have been carping about profligate lending since the Asian crisis began. But TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl points out that the IMF?s Russian loans "are just as much political decisions as financial or economic ones - an unstable Russia...
...Avenue. The headlines screamed for Nixon's resignation. Nixon wanted to talk about inflation and the U.S. economy. Ford stared across the Cabinet table in wonder at this odd tableau. "The 'smoking gun' tape was out--the country was up in arms about it," recounted Ford. "Nixon was just plain out of touch, and his mind off there somewhere...
...broad comedy as the Russian moll Natasha in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. But what will she do with that darn dress? "It's not in my closet," she laughs. "After the scene ended, the wardrobe people ripped it off my body, and I turned back into a plain Cinderella again." And there's no sin in that...
...Jamaica Plain resident reported that while at the Cambridge Port School she was threatened by a female who stated to her, "If I run into you again, I'm gonna hurt you, yes that's a threat." The lady who received the threat runs a camp. The suspect's son was suspended from the camp program...