Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour diner closed its doors in October of 1997 when renovations on its building, owned by Cambridge Savings Bank, began, but the restaurant's return was always in doubt due to rising rent costs. After more than a year of speculation (including a rumor that it would relocate to Leo's Place on JFK Street for the evening hours), the Tasty is gone for good...
...Here's the scoop on this year's Yard interbreeding: all the dope freshmen girls are dating upperclassmen, leaving their male counterparts in a pathetic scramble for leftover booty. Rumor has it that FF ticket sales have hit a new low. "If the freshman facebook is any indication of our class, no wonder nobody's going to the formal," griped one jaded freshie...
...this and similar cases, all the Nancy Markles of the world have to do to fabricate a health rumor is post it in some Usenet news groups and let ordinary folks, who may already distrust artificial products, forward it to all their friends and e-mail pals. I received several copies last week, as have many doctors and health organizations...
...Helmick's wife surveyed the scene and termed it "legal bribery." Helmick told TIME that his wife saw I.O.C. delegates from the East bloc returning from shopping trips with bid officials, laden with Escada clothing and other $500 purchases. The I.O.C. could no longer claim such solicitation was "just rumor." In 1986 the committee put a $150 limit on gifts and insisted that travel tickets be nonrefundable...
Bill Clinton has been dogged for years by the rumor that in Arkansas he fathered a child of an African-American prostitute. In 1992 the tale was flogged by the tabloid Globe. But it really took off last week when news leaked that the tabloid Star was conducting DNA tests to confirm or refute the rumor once and for all, provoking a frenzy of speculation in Washington after the story leaped, in the usual fashion, from the Drudge Report to the New York Post to papers around the world. Using the Starr Report's FBI analysis of Clinton...