Word: sheila
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...Sheila Rose, a 50-year-old mother of two in Stamford, Conn., is typical of shoppers who have been sitting on their hands waiting for the final markdowns. With unemployment hitting a 25-year high, she expects discounts to at least match last year's levels, "or maybe even more given the situation." Says Rose: "I think there will be some real hidden gems there towards...
...Sheila Murphy Cockrel, a member of the Detroit city council, has never been afraid to swim against the tide. She opposed proposals to create "Africa Town," a district exclusively for black-owned businesses in the heart of downtown. She regularly sparred with the city's former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned in 2008 amid enormous legal problems. Just last month, she drew headlines for abruptly leaving the council's chambers to protest a rushed measure, backed by Christian conservatives, to restrict alcohol sales at Detroit's strip clubs. "It was an act of democracy to walk...
...black police chief and, eventually, the suspension of a unit known for harassing young black men. Cockrel helped her husband win a city-council seat, and he was viewed as a leading potential successor to Young. But in 1989, Ken had a heart attack and died. For a while, Sheila stayed home to care for her young daughter. Four years later, she successfully ran for a city-council seat of her own, hoping to be an advocate for the kind of policies her husband had championed, like making literacy classes mandatory for all pregnant teenagers. "That, in our mind...
...keep secret which banks were subject to the new powers sought by the Administration. A top committee Democrat, Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania, said he feared the bill's accumulation of executive-branch power. Regulators are also sniping. At Thursday's hearing in the House, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chair Sheila Bair said the Administration's plan didn't give enough power to regulators. Graybeards like Paul Volcker have been calling for greater constraints on big banks...
...Sheila” continues this racy flow with actually intelligible lyrics, unlike the mumbles that filled most of Atlas Sound’s first album. Oddly enough, though, these lyrics drift back into the dark and mysterious realm even as the sound remains accessbily poppy; “Sheila, we will die alone together,” Cox sings in a deceptively upbeat voice...