Word: poached
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retirement announcement on Friday was six months ahead of schedule. During his career with B.A., King transformed it from a money-losing state enterprise into a publicly owned -- and highly profitable -- airline. B.A.'s reputation was sullied last month when it conceded that employees had used underhanded methods to poach passengers from rival Virgin Atlantic Airways. King denied that dirty tricks had anything to do with his departure, insisting that he wished to remove "uncertainty and speculation" about the firm's future leadership...
...part of his and the movie's charm. As brought to impossibly glamorous life in Assante's performance, Cesar has fun doing almost anything; he can dance a sinfully erotic tango with Nestor's wife-to-be (Maruschka Detmers) and not consider it a promise or a poach. He sees life, in its painful as well as its ecstatic moments, as a wouldn't-miss-it party. And so is The Mambo Kings: an old-fashioned, music-and-dance, brothers-and- lovers fiesta...
...ovens (one with an infra-red broiler that reaches 1500 degrees F in 30 seconds). Going all out, it can simultaneously broil shrimp kabobs for an appetizer, warm the soup, roast the leg of lamb, grill swordfish, steam petits pois, simmer wild rice, saute baby tomatoes, poach pears and flambe crepes suzette...