Word: ring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ADMIRERS BACK IN NIGERIA, Olushina Adekanbi, 36, was revered as the "King of New York." U.S. law-enforcement officials were less adulatory. They knew the dapper Nigerian as a man of more than two dozen aliases who allegedly ran the largest ring of credit-card thieves in the U.S. Authorities busted Adekanbi last September on credit-fraud charges. Then last week, after a five-month investigation, they brought some 200 counts against the still-jailed Adekanbi and seven other Nigerians, including Adekanbi's wife Mary. The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years. "We've broken...
Pappas is the tornado at the center of City Hall, a cluttered drama that imagines a Faustian battle between Pappas and his deputy mayor Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack). Kevin is a Louisiana boy who wants to hold onto his ideals even as he grabs for the brass ring. That won't be easy. A black child has been gunned down by a Mafioso, and the political fallout may contaminate a Brooklyn boss (Danny Aiello), a stately judge (Martin Landau), possibly even the mayor...
Same face, different race. The familiar, popular pitchman for STP, Pepsi and Goody's headache powders has thrown his trademark cowboy hat into the political ring--to pitch himself for North Carolina secretary of state. Ecstatic Republicans are hoping that Petty will whiz right into the job and help other G.O.P. candidates speed past Democrats into other top posts. Petty, who successfully underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1995, is the founder of a conservative pac, a former Randolph County commissioner and a regular G.O.P. crowd pleaser. He intends to maintain his commercial plugs while running for the state office...
...sapphire ring--I've wanted one of these all my life," for example, came through pretty well...
...others decry this as stereotyping, insisting that the male "wanderer" and the female eager for a ring are images which are no longer accurate. At a school like Harvard, where the genders seem equally driven and academically motivated, students say it is unfair to blame the non-existent dating life on male fears of commitment...