Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some came to hear performances by three bands, Expanding Man, Piraeus and The Dailey Planet. Others romped through a Velcro obstacle course or played hackensack in the grass...
...absolute no idea where I was going. I thought about calling home but then realized that a) I didn't know how to call home and b) even if I did, what exactly could my parents do to help me at 4 a.m. on the other side of the planet...
...little carried away with its photo retouching, Sport Auto showed the hard-bodied star on its cover next to a Gemballa Porsche, giving it the thumbs-up sign. Schwarzenegger filed a $5 million lawsuit claiming his photo was used without permission (or payment). You thought he did those Planet Hollywood gigs for free food...
There cannot be anyone left on this planet who is unaware that smoking is not a healthy activity [BUSINESS, Sept. 2]. The U.S. government now wants to declare nicotine a drug and begin a new drug war. Wars cost money. The media and the Food and Drug Administration use the word addicted as if people had no choice once that first pack of cigarettes is bought and smoked...
...record reveals a top-of-the-line number cruncher steeped in the values of corporate loyalty. But as Secretary of Defense, his mistakes cost lives, not shareholder dividends. And yet his responsibilities required a level of abstraction and analysis that seems to have put him on another planet. Hendrickson emphasizes this distance by frequently interrupting his biography with stories of ordinary men and women profoundly affected by the war: a helicopter crewman; a Quaker who immolated himself on the Pentagon grounds; a former South Vietnamese army officer now living in California...