Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University cannot raise $28 million out of thin air, but it picks and chooses where it spends its money very carefully, and if something is necessary, the money can be found. Therefore, we recommend that the administration put its money where its mouth is, step up to the plate and act before Widener begins selling its books as confetti...
...said an anonymous process would take "every opportunity for mischief off the plate...
There are also episodes outside the White House that look suspiciously as though fund raisers tried to lure special interests with the prospect of spending time with officials who could affect their businesses. One was a $10,000-a-plate dinner attended by Clinton last year at the mansion of Democratic pitchman William Brandt, outside Chicago. It raked in more than $1 million for the D.N.C. The guests included bankruptcy lawyers and bankers. Also present was Brady Williamson, whom Clinton had just appointed chairman of a commission that will file a report later this year recommending changes to bankruptcy...
...past. Others felt sure Singleton had put it behind him. He proffered small gifts and helped out with tasks. "He was the kind of person who, when his cat walked on my car, would wash the whole car," says Corene Bennett, who lives next door. "We fixed him a plate for Thanksgiving...
...many crashes are the product of terrorism anyway? I have been in airplanes where the overhead bins open with gay abandon at the slightest bump, where the reading lights flicker with a hypnotic frequency and where the food, insofar as it can be detected on the plate, is seldom warmed above the temperature of the ambient stratosphere. One can only pray in these circumstances that the subcontractor in charge of the cabin was not also entrusted with engine maintenance. As for the crucial issue of when to go up and when to go down: we read of air-traffic-control...