Word: starred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could forgive John McCain for getting a little overexcited about campaign finance reform. It?s the North Star of whatever presidential hopes he still has these days, and here, finally, was his (and Russ Feingold?s) perennially quixotic bill, on the Senate floor for six days of full debate. The spate of pump-priming jeremiads about pork-barrel bills and soft-money corruption that McCain posted on his web site must have seemed utterly appropriate ? but not to Mitch McConnell. "Someone must be corrupt for there to be corruption," McConnell said on Thursday, challenging McCain to come forth with specific...
...marketing credit cards as comprehensive lifestyle enhancers--complete with celebrity spokespeople such as comedian Jerry Sienfeld and golf star Tiger Woods--rather than just convenient tools of purchase, Manning says credit card companies are hooking more and more young people. Credit card companies, he says, are bringing about a "cultural revolution...
...Sean: I've made $120-$45 in tips. During the All-Star game, people would give me extra dollars. And if you're selling a product with price that has 75 cents, you can get the quarter a lot. If we're playing a good team, the crowd is more into it, and the money is going to be better. Those games you're going to make a lot of money...
...Chris: There are three jokes we hear. "Where's the beer vendor?" "$3.25 for a Coke? Hey, is there rum in here?" "I can buy three of these at Star Market...
...demanding applause and cheers from the rest of the human race, it's definitely annoying to the point of destructive. The Kroks are a little bit of both. Those who are not real musical buffs or expert managers in the group are showmen: McNeely wants to be "a pop star" while Perry Wilson, star of his freshman musical, loves to ham it up on his air guitar solo during the group's 1950s medley. Both the audience and the performers get their kicks at a Kroks show. "Sometimes you feel like a celebrity," one member of the group tells...