Word: proprietorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group should have sole proprietorship over "taking responsibility" for our world. History has shown that this formula inevitably leads to others' ending up ignored, oppressed--or worse. The Promise Keepers display newfound zeal in taking charge, but since prebiblical days women, with their minds, imagination and participation, have been helping our society thrive. Let's not assume failure when women lead. REBECCA BERMUDEZ Los Angeles...
...name runs, occasionally roughshod, through the tabloid life of our times. This guy is best known to the general public for trashing a hotel room a couple of years ago and getting busted for it, for his long-running liaison with supersvelte supermodel Kate Moss and for his proprietorship of the menacingly named Viper Room, the determinedly grungy rock club on Sunset Blvd. outside of which River Phoenix succumbed to a final overdose. What the public does not know is that this character is largely the figment of our gossip-debased collective unconscious...
...speech, Ashe expressed concern over what he called the increasing "provincialism" surrounding the disease. Ashe also warned against "a sense of proprietorship" among AIDS activists...
When Shevardnadze arrived at the Stalin-gothic Foreign Ministry on Smolensky Square, he treated it as a candidate for cleanup. After 28 years under the proprietorship of dour-visaged Andrei Gromyko, the ministry badly needed perestroika and glasnost. Within a year Shevardnadze replaced nine of the 12 deputy ministers, instituted a daily press briefing, and created departments for disarmament and economic relations with the West...