Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...completely revamped, 1999-model Agassi motors into this week's U.S. Open in New York City with the top down, the engine bulked up, and the passenger seat empty, Mrs. Agassi--a.k.a. Brooke Shields--having flown the coupe. Now ranked second in the world, the newly single Agassi has singlehandedly rejuvenated both his own sputtering career and men's tennis in general. So winning the Open title in rowdy Flushing Meadows would be fitting. To do so, though, he'll have to get by the top gun, Pete Sampras, who hasn't needed to stage a made-for-television comeback...
...every one of them had as a life goal making enough money to accumulate the same superfluous material objects that everyone else had. Now that those boomers are feeling an occasional twinge in the lower back as they take that big step up into the driver's seat of the sport-utility vehicles they worked so hard to acquire, along comes another generation known not for wanting to be rich but for having suddenly become rich--seemingly without working very hard, or at least very long. That has to sting...
...City Councillor WILLIAM H. WALSH (right) became the first elected Cambridge official to be convicted of a crime since 1941. The controversial politician was found guilty in U.S. District Court last week on 41 counts of bank fraud and making false statements, but still refuses to resign his council seat. Walsh headed a scheme that defrauded the Dime Savings Bank of New York out of $2.9 million...
...almost equally tony Westchester town of Chappaqua. The First Family announced Thursday they?d paid $1.7 million to acquire a five-bedroom house built in 1889, giving Hillary Rodham Clinton a place to unpack her carpetbag and get busy on her bid for New York?s Senate seat. But residents of the tranquil New York City suburb needn?t fear being turned into an extension of Pennsylvania Avenue. "As long as Bill Clinton is in the White House, this house will remain strictly an occasional weekend getaway," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "And once...
JEAN ("I'M NOT A CRETIN") CHRETIEN OCCUPATION: Canadian Prime Minister BEST PUNCH: Nixed Black's bid for a seat in the British House of Lords with a 1919 document asking U.K. monarchs not to confer titles on Canadians...