Word: snooping
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...March and its subsequent decision to extend credit to other investment banks over which it has no regulatory say have been major prods to discussion. Both House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson have since suggested that the Fed be given power to snoop around such institutions in search of market-endangering risks. Frank and presidential candidate Barack Obama have also talked of replacing the hodgepodge of federal and state regulatory agencies with a simpler and less loophole-ridden structure--and on March 31, Paulson issued a long-term plan to do just that...
...Snoop Dogg is Long Beach’s renaissanceman. He has been a crack dealer, agang banger, a gangsta rapper, a comedyshow host, a pornographer, a marijuanaenthusiast, and, more recently, a realitytelevision star. Part of Snoop Dogg’s appealis that he is a pop culture icon whoseems to defy logic with his resiliency andprofile in the rap game. Snoop is just asvisible now as he was in 1992, when hewas the runaway guest star of Dr. Dre’swest coast classic “The Chronic.” Thatsaid, the question of whether you?...
...ostentation? -Jens Jensen, ChicagoI don't think so. I think one watches the Grammys, one watches the fashion shows, and the reality is that sports, music, fashion - they're global trends. I knew that to be the fact when I saw Lee Iacocca appear in a Chrysler ad with Snoop Dogg. Or when water was being advertised by 50 Cent. You know, c'mon guys. We don't court it, we don't overly promote it. Charles Barkley took me to task for having Big & Rich at the Denver All-Star Game (in 2005) because they weren...
...camera turns to a rotating disco ball. You think to yourself, “Have I tuned on VH1 classics?” The fear quickly intensifies seconds later when you realize you’re not watching a Bee Gees video, but rather the new clip for Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction.” Snoop references a ton of 1970s fads throughout the video. He rocks every hairstyle imaginable, from a mullet to an Afro with long sideburns. In an homage to Travolta circa “Saturday Night Fever...
...instinct among older music fans was to roll their eyes and yawn. Ten years ago, another activist, C. Delores Tucker, launched a very similar campaign to clean up rap music. She focused on Time Warner (parent of TIME), whose subsidiary Interscope was home to hard-core rappers Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. In 1995 Tucker succeeded in forcing Time Warner to dump Interscope...