Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Olympics (he later was cleared of any wrongdoing), remembered keepsakes suddenly escalating from "nice things to exorbitant things." At I.O.C. confabs, members were seen rolling dollies laden with gifts to their hotel rooms; at one meeting a makeshift parcel-post office was set up to wrap and ship "souvenirs" to delegates' homes. 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...
...This remarkable new work blends old-fashioned scholarship and storytelling with color videos and stereo sound to bring its subject alive, starting with a video lecture by poet Maya Angelou, who notes that "it takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone's culture...
...make a quantum leap rather than do it incrementally." After Connie Chung reportedly turned down the job, Sawyer (who will continue her prime-time duties as well) was lured back with the understanding that she and Gibson would serve for only "a few months"--enough time to right the ship and groom some permanent successors...
...leading opponents of allowing TV cameras in the Supreme Court courtroom, will direct a proceeding that will be broadcast on national television coast to coast. And to make matters even more delicate, says McAllister "the Chief, who has made it a practice to run a tight ship at the Supreme Court, will be running a show during which senators can outvote him at any moment on any question of procedure or evidence." It's the opportunity of a lifetime to stake out a place in the pantheon of justice or to go down in flames amidst the flares of politics...
...tend to take high powered special effects for granted. Despite these high expectations, the creators of Star Trek: Insurrection still manage to produce some impressive visuals: Data walks around as a head without a body after removing part of his invisibility suit; Worf clubs an attacking drone ship out of the sky; truly evil-looking Son'a spaceships surround the Enterprise with the colorful backdrop of a nebula; and, as usual, the make-up artists have created a variety of strange-looking aliens...