Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Reno finally left the stand, Freeh artfully deflected pointed questions about his reported unhappiness with Reno and her Justice-led probe. Of course, had the FBI chief wanted a united front, he might have started earlier. Shannon points out that the Reno-Freeh split went public on reports from Freeh's own aides. "And he's very much in control ? not the type to have genuine leaks...
...course there is more to it than that. A perfectionist, she has turned herself into one of the best in her narrow field; her 20-ft. palms are almost impossible to distinguish from living vegetation. "Our goal is to make you stand up and touch it to find out if it is real," says Lewis. She has allied herself with another globe-trotting expert: Paul Steelman, an interior architect who specializes in casinos. "Linda follows us around and helps create the casinos we want to create," says he. In a world hungry not just for American style but for American...
Years ago, you only heard about a large company like General Electric going into the international marketplace," says Roma Malkani. "But now I can stand up against a Lockheed Martin. [Foreign buyers] are looking for niche companies like...
...Ford's first NFL team owners' meeting in 1995, the opening issue of business was whether the league should take away the Lions' annual Thanksgiving game and give it to a better team. But Ford made a goal-line stand. "This game doesn't belong to you or to us," he fumed. "It belongs to the fans who've been watching it since 1934--which predates most of the franchises trying to take it away." And as if to vindicate Ford's stand, on their Thanksgiving outing last Thursday the Lions terrorized the Chicago Bears...
...tenuously related sketches, we watch as Bobby (Peter Riegert), on a visit to his hometown, has a series of encounters with friends and family: an old pal from the neighborhood; his sister Jolly and her taciturn husband; an ex-girlfriend. It's not hard to recognize Bobby as a stand-in for Mamet, the town as Chicago, where he grew up, and the memories as very likely drawn from his own life. Alas...