Word: sprung
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Some fellow psychology majors from Lewis and Clark have banded together--anonymously--to circulate a message of support: "Monica is the epitome of a true friend." A couple of Website fan clubs have also sprung up, but most of the Internet home pages that revolve around her name are sardonic depositories of tawdry humor. She faces countless depositions and grand-jury testimonies and the possible charge that she perjured herself in denying an affair with the President...
Talk, however soothing, will go only so far. Thus virtually every day since Christmas, the White House has sprung a new policy proposal. Some are big, like giving 62- to 64-year-olds a chance to buy into Medicare, and spending nearly $22 billion more on child care. Others, like expanding college work-study grants and training more computer programmers, are relatively modest. Clinton is also talking more seriously about confronting Social Security's solvency crisis. What all these plans have in common is that they seek to give ballast to a nation sailing through choppy waters...
...reads the cover of this week's PEOPLE, which goes on to add, with only half-mock portentousness: "A stunned nation prepares for life without Seinfeld." In New York City, where the show is set and where numerous cottage industries--indeed, a whole Seinfeld-based economy--have sprung up around real-life counterparts to the show's fictional characters and locations, grief was especially poignant...
DIED. EDDIE CHAPMAN, 83, British crook turned World War II double agent; in London. Serving time on the Channel Islands for his sticky fingers, Chapman was sprung by German occupiers who sent him to blow up an English factory. He faked the demolition with the aid of a master illusionist and returned to Germany a hero--code-named "Zig Zag" by his new friends, British intelligence...
Many of the 20 or so pot clubs that have sprung up around the state in response to the law--places where people in need can get a steady supply of the drug--are strictly monitoring their customers. The Santa Clara County Medical Cannabis Center dispenses a pound of marijuana a week from its discreet, white-walled suite in a business complex. When one would-be customer proffered a doctor's recommendation that he had allegedly forged, co-founder Peter Baez called the police and later went to court to help press charges...