Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When St. Petersburg built the Suncoast Dome in 1987, it aimed to be the first Florida city to attract a major league baseball team. The recession didn't stanch enthusiasm for the project. As assistant city manager Rick Dodge notes, in what sounds like a bow to Clintonomics: "Cities that are coming out of the recession are cities investing in the future." But this brave leap seemed to be over a cliff. Three times the majors took St. Pete to the altar, and three times the town was jilted: first with the Chicago White Sox, then with a prospective expansion...
...Republicans roll into Houston this week, they will get a steamy reception from the city's legion of TOPLESS DANCERS. Rick's cabaret is distributing White House-style invitations that promise "an evening of politically correct fun and excitement." "I'm making more than a brain surgeon right now," boasts one entrepreneurial "lap dancer." Other club owners offer fax machines and conference rooms to customers seeking to mix politics with pleasure. But Houston authorities are ready to pounce in case drug dealing or prostitution occurs. "For anyone with an elephant badge who thinks they can violate the law," warns Harris...
...Rick Bechtel, the architect who oversaw the project for the Cambridge firm Graham Gund, said he thought the distinction simply reflected the magazien editors' individual tastes...
...corps covering the state's first-in-the-nation primary, and he was trying to devise a more personal approach to the campaign. Then it hit him: Why not portray a run for the presidency from the inside looking out? A few days later, P.F. told associate picture editor Rick Boeth that he'd like to hook up with the Clinton campaign, a risky choice because the Arkansas Governor's candidacy was in deep trouble at the time and his aides were naturally suspicious of becoming involved with the press. "P.F. used all his considerable finesse and diplomatic skills...
...Rick" one customer chuckles. "Look. Stealth condoms...