Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jack Kirrane still remembers when the phone rang early in the morning in his hotel room in Prague. Kirrane was in Czechoslovakia with the 1948 U.S. Olympic hockey team preparing for the games on a European tour...
Three days later Adam sent me another message, scolding me for not replying to his e-mail. The message sarcastically rang of jealous love. "Your seductive home page, the coy messages left on my computer in the early morning, how could I avoid making you a part of my life," the message read. "And now you want out, to be done with me forever. Well, I have to tell you Gupton, IT'S JUST NOT THAT EASY. I will fight for you Gupton, I will not let you slip away. I know where you live." There was an unmistakable jocularity...
Nearly two weeks later, at 1:45 AM on a Sunday, my phone rang. "Hi, can I speak to Gupton please?" an energetic voice asked. I only needed to ask whether it was Adam or Brian on the other end. (It turned out they were two different people--I spoke to both of them.) They were calling from North-western, where they were drunk and bored. I acted casually, as though I had half-expected their call, and passed up the chance to scold them for their harassment. I wasn't angry anymore, and I had lost all interest...
...past, owning papers made families like the Hearsts, the Grahams and the Sulzbergers tremendously wealthy. And even last year, profit margins for the industry as a whole were a respectable 12.5%--nearly twice that of the average Fortune 500 company. (Gannett Co., the country's largest newspaper chain, rang up a 21.7% margin.) Notes John Morton, a Wall Street analyst: "The newspaper industry is sorely besieged, but not from a lack of profits...
...program, Clinton laid out the case for assuring that all Americans, regardless of race, have equal opportunity. The time has not come, he said, for the government to trust that people will behave fairly on matters of race. His comparison of affirmative action to the Americans with Disabilities Act rang true. Just as we don't guarantee disabled Americans a job, but we promise them a ramp so that they can get to the interview, we assure all Americans, that regardless what color their skin is, they will be recruited and considered as workers, students and leaders. Dole failed...