Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present, there are 24 young musicians signed to the studio, most found through ads in the trades or auditions; many are from the Orlando area, where performers now flock because of the increasing film and television production at Disney and Universal, as well as all the singing and dancing jobs at theme-park shows. The O-Town kids are paid $500 to $1,000 a week until their groups take off and they start making real money. Or not. A reporter jokes that if things don't work out, the boys can always go to work for the Chippendales chain...
...relief when it arrives. But there's another date in America's future that may hold far more significance. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by the middle of the next century, race in America will be turned upside down. In 2050 whites will be a minority, and present-day minorities will be in the majority...
However, Buell said Bercovitch's leave might present some problems for American history and literature concentrators, since they must take a course in colonial literature to graduate...
Still, the managers had the undivided attention of the Senators, sitting quietly for what must be record-setting periods. Fatigue was an ever present danger. When I met up with Senator Orrin Hatch in his office at lunchtime, he was eating lightly to forestall his usual midafternoon slump. But that broccoli and baked potato were no match for air on the Senate floor, as recirculated and stuffy as that on a 747. By 3 p.m. his head was nodding. Those scribbling most energetically were not necessarily the most attentive: Senator Byron Dorgan was writing on cream-colored stationery what looked...
...Salt Lake to reality. Whether the disclosures will be enough to deprive Salt Lake of the Games or topple the autocratic--some say dictatorial--18-year regime of I.O.C. head Juan Antonio Samaranch is doubtful. But the investigations will reveal certain things: that the leaders of S.L.O.C. were not present-day saints, that Samaranch is either delusionary or hypocritical to a Clintonesque degree, and that the relationship between the Olympic movement and the U.S. involves good measures of fear and loathing--fear that the money will go away, loathing for the other guy's values...