Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reporters have been digging into Perot's carefully tended story about his dramatic transformation from obscure computer salesman into proprietor of one of the nation's largest fortunes. Already some cracks are beginning to appear in the facade. Perot, like some of the mainstream politicians he derides, does have a credibility problem. He once remarked that "I'm not a living legend. I'm just a myth." Which sounds disarming -- except that some parts of the myth appear to be self-created. Even some admirers concede that Perot is an inveterate embroiderer of good stories. A less sympathetic...
...money or for an exchange of drugs. After each use, addicts clean the needles in a pail of water set out every morning by the operator. The water starts out clear, but it is bloodred by afternoon. "We don't know who all got the virus," admits the proprietor . of one such establishment. By exchanging needles, the project also reduces the number of contaminated needles that find their way into the city's parks, playgrounds and schools. "We used to find needles scattered throughout the building," says Edith Rawls, resident director of the downtown Y.M.C.A., which houses...
...exotic fare drew celebrities, including television chef and author Julia Child, who lives nearby, and Joe Perry of the rock group Aerosmith, said Marc E. Savenor, co-proprietor of Savenor's Liquor Mart, Child visited the supermarket site the day after the fire and "couldn't believe it," Savenor said...
...savior of the city's Daily News, whose workers were waging a draining strike against the paper's owners, the Tribune Co. Maxwell luxuriated in his role as an American media king, appearing in ads for the paper and putting on lavish spreads at Washington social functions. The new proprietor pocketed $60 million in exchange for taking on the News and its debt, but the paper still loses money -- between $30 million and $40 million a year, estimates John Morton, a newspaper analyst at Lynch, Jones & Ryan in Washington...
...Foreigner is the story of a small Georgian community which is suddenly electrified by the arrival of a "foreigner." The audience meets Betty Meeks (Jeanne Simpson), proprietor of the fishing lodge in which the action takes place; the Reverend David Lee (Richard Claflin) and his fiance Catherine Simms (Bina Martin); Catherine's exuberant but uneducated brother, Ellard (Ian Lithgow); Ku Klux Klan member Owen Musser (Glenn Kessler); and military man Forggy Leseur (J.C Wolfgang Murad), who brings the painfully shy Charlie Baker (Tom Hughes) to Tilghman County and suggests that in order to avoid conversation he pretend...