Word: sights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While slugging it out over legislation, Liapakis, a 49-year-old New Yorker whose father ran a bar near Ebbets Field, has kept the next election in sight--and emily's List in mind. In fact, she is planning to apply some of emily's tactics to the trial lawyers. Her association has asked the Federal Election Commission for an O.K. to begin "partisan communications" with its members, in which the group would endorse candidates and recommend both the timing and amount of contributions. Liapakis, who learned litigation from personal-injury pioneer Harry Lipsig, describes her plan in terms...
...have stayed in touch with the fugitives via a phone line that was kept operational when the regular lines to the house were cut off. The FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, an elite assault force involved in the Ruby Ridge shootings, has been on the scene but out of sight. To head up the bureau's command post in Billings, FBI Director Louis Freeh sent a top deputy, Robert ("Bear") Bryant, chief of the FBI's national security division. He sends regular field reports to Freeh, who in turn confers daily with Attorney General Reno. At the White House, Chief...
...STOVALL, 38; TULSA, OKLA.; Narrative Television Network The film buff learned he was going blind at 17 and completely lost his sight by 29. He found his favorite films, like The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, difficult to enjoy. "Even though I had seen it a number of times, I couldn't follow the end." In 1988 Stovall, the author of You Don't Have to Be Blind to See, started NTN to narrate TV and movie classics for an audience that could no longer see them. Today the Emmy Award--winning network reaches 25 million homes...
...silver button where a bow tie is normally worn, you may have surmised that he'd somehow lost his tie on the way over. As this actor had made his way past the cheering crowds toward Oprah Winfrey's microphone, you guessed, a particularly impressionable fan swooned at the sight of him, cut herself on the curb and was saved from bleeding to death only by his quick action in whipping off his bow tie and pressing it into service as a tourniquet...
When Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake first caught sight of the comet through a pair of binoculars on Jan. 30 (it was his second comet discovery; the first came just a month earlier) there was no reason to think it would be especially bright. But when professionals calculated the orbit, they realized that Hyakutake would be approaching to within a mere 9.3 million miles of Earth, only 40 times as distant as the moon...