Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempt to cover all bases was understandable. Politicians are sure that the riots and their aftermath will be a major issue in the November elections. But past the immediate impact -- another drop in Bush's popularity -- they cannot be sure how it will play. Will frightened voters respond to stern pledges to restore law and order, or heed calls for new efforts to heal racial animosity, or demand some elusive combination of both? Unable to fix immediately on the right blend, candidates instinctively responded by trying to place blame, while piously denying that they were doing any such thing. White...
...Mother pilfers desk supplies from her office. Daughter shoplifts for "something to do" and to finance her adolescent drug taking. Brother-in- law is on the fiddle at work and with the tax office. Son-in-law traffics in "surplus" merchandise from the family factory. Even the clan's stern paterfamilias Jack, for all his talk of rectitude, is not above bribing a prying private investigator with a juicy no-bid security contract...
...mood of the moment, and so he was this time. On Wednesday night, immediately after the verdict, he gave reporters an utterly inadequate statement: "The court system has worked. What's needed now is calm, respect for the law." On Thursday he issued a series of statements that were stern in condemning the rioting but confusing about what, if anything, he intended to do about the verdict...
...friends and neighbors and family who had assembled to hug one another and make fond jokes. Dr. Huxtable (Bill Cosby) was goofy with pride. He had a flashback to the time some years before when Theo announced he wanted to forget about school and get a job: Dr. Huxtable, stern and loving, laid down the law. And then at the end of the show, Cosby and his television wife, Phylicia Rashad, walked off the stage set, out of fantasy into real time, as the studio audience applauded...
...Stern's Hotel Cheyenne is a theme park of its own, a fantasy re-creation of an Old West town. There'll be gunfights around the covered wagon parked on Desperado Street, a sandy boulevard banked by "saloons," "goldsmiths," "jails" -- all facades for the 14 two-story wood-frame buildings that house the guests. Stern's other gem, the Newport Bay Club, is instantly a diamond as big as the Ritz. Bigger, in fact; it's the largest hotel in Europe. The blue, white and cream colors of this seven-story megamansion suggest beachside elegance -- a jaunty, yachty summer idled...