Word: standout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is already a standout among First Ladies. Just take a look at a program for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, pictured above, where she's an honorary chairman of the board of trustees, along with seven former First Ladies. The others are listed as female versions of their husbands (Mrs. Gerald R. Ford, Mrs. Aristotle Onassis), and only Clinton is entered under her own name...
...rate on individual incomes could bring in $60 billion over four years. But others are largely symbolic, designed to demonstrate to the middle class that if its taxes are being increased, fat cats who benefited heavily from the Republican tax cuts of the 1980s are being hit much harder. Standout example: a proposed limitation on the ability of companies to deduct "excessive" salaries paid to chief executives and other high officers. Clinton says it would have "relatively small dollar impact ((maybe $300 million the first year)) but great significance to the American people...
...immigrants from Singapore, used the profits from Dr. Alfred Tay's medical practice to custom-build their 8,000-sq.-ft. home in an exclusive section of the city of Orange and to provide costly luxuries for their son and daughter. Stuart was a former Boy Scout, an academic standout at Foothill High School, and a founder of an Asian-culture club who hoped to attend a top-ranked college next fall. Some of his friends add subtle shadings to the glowing picture, mentioning the "techno-punk" clothes he had begun wearing as a senior and his frequent conversations about...
...sophomore standout Tammy Butler is asserting herself as a verifiable Crimson star this season. She is quiet and may not get all the press, but to borrow a cliche, she does her talking on the court...
...only reminds listeners that guitarist Nuno Bettencourt is a mean riffer but also harks back to the roots of rock opera, taking on epic proportions in the process. Divided into three acts, the album is full of social commentary denouncing war in cynical, hard- cutting tracks. One standout: the haunting Rest in Peace, which knocks flower-child cliches such as "Give peace a chance" and "Make love not war" as hypocritical euphemisms...