Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Relative value. Many housing markets only recently emerged from the ashes of that mail-the-bank-the-keys, late-'80s decline. So there's little risk of a new meltdown. The renowned real estate bargain hunter Sam Zell has been building one of the nation's largest portfolios of apartment buildings. Meanwhile, the way the sky-high stock market has been bouncing has some folks fretting that a tumble is in store. This may be a good time to take some stock gains and invest in larger quarters. "It's a way to diversify," says Bob Van Order, economist...
...real life, Alley is just like that drink, which goes down sweet--until the lemon tang hits. Ted Danson, who played Sam the horny bartender to Alley's sexually frustrated Rebecca Howe on Cheers, affectionately calls her "the biker chick from hell." She will say and do anything for a laugh, as Americans learned in 1991, when she thanked her husband Parker Stevenson for "giving me the big one" as she picked up her Emmy for Cheers. Her Hollywood pals didn't know what to think recently when she publicly ribbed her buddy John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston...
...most popular figures in American public life, sometimes have difficulty finding less popular targets suitable for attack. There are drug dealers, Internet porn producers, and recently, the Internal Revenue Service. Now the Senate Finance Committee begins to unveil the findings of a six-month probe, and TIME correspondent Sam Gwynne says the IRS may deserve the public lashing it will receive. The committee will charge that the agency targets lower-and-middle-income people for audits and uses a quota system to rate agents. Some analysts are asking if the service's behavior is the result of Capitol Hill...
...University of Texas law professor suggesting that African- and Mexican-Americans lack the drive to compete with white students in the classroom have sparked a high-profile protest from black leaders already angry with the federal court's dismantling of Texas affirmative-action admissions policies. TIME Texas Bureau Chief Sam Gwynne reports the Tuesday demonstration, to be attended by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, will likely get support from the majority of the university community, which "detests" the court ruling that outlawed race-based Texas admissions policies. "In a state where minorities, in aggregate, will soon be the majority...
...they're more willing to exclude experts." The results are dramatic, even pivotal, in cases involving breast implants. Last year Judge Robert Jones of Oregon used the findings of his own panel of scientists to exclude the plaintiffs' evidence in some 70 cases brought against implant makers. Federal Judge Sam Pointer of Alabama is evaluating pretrial evidence in 22,000 cases. To this end he has carefully assembled a four-member expert panel. Its conclusions and videotaped depositions are expected to influence not just Pointer but many other judges as well in determining what should be allowed in court...