Word: steve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort of reverse adoption, each kid claims a fireman as his or her own. Some gravitate to Albert Shaw, who drives the truck and teaches chess at the kitchen table. Others crowd around Steve ("the Preacher") Ellerson, who gives haircuts and lectures on good grades. Andre Raiford, built like an oaken door, drills the children on multiplication tables. Each fireman imparts lessons in some area and helps enforce a strict behavior code. Swearing and drug dealing are prohibited. Faces must be clean, hair combed, hands washed. "All these kids know is what they see around the projects," says Lewis...
...pioneer of the faux-Letterman gang was Australia's Steve Vizard, a lawyer turned comedian who was host of a late-night show down under for three years, starting in 1990. He had the Letterman repertoire down pat, introduc-ing bits with the same tongue-in-cheek flourish ("I have in my left hand... "). Staff members would even prep American guests on the show by telling them, "Just pretend you're on the Letterman show." Though critics hooted at the thievery, most Aussie viewers didn't get the references--until 1994, when the real Letterman show started airing in Australia...
...lowbrow things you find in your pockets, the natural world itself. That means that the world is filled with music. "You can make music out of absolutely anything, whether it's...tapping on a Coke can or picking up pebbles on the beach," says the show's co-creator Steve McNicholas. "It's what you want to do with...
...Those last couple of minutes of the period is critical and it gains momentum," said Harvard Coach Steve Locker. "That goal was very huge and we should have had another right after that. If that had happened, it would have just buried them. But we were unlucky. That's just how the game...
...were maneuvering their funds minute by minute as they followed the market's jagged path. Such intimate control over funds is one reason investors are flocking to the digital trading floor. Offline brokers charge higher commissions, "and you can't really see what they're doing," says software engineer Steve Salgo, 40, whose balance was instantly updated on his computer--no waiting for a close-of-market tally. "I could see what my positions were and the status of my order without staying on the phone...