Word: stoke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were thrown together by a stoke of pure luck," says McCarthy. "We were just up talking one morning at four [a.m.] and i was telling SJ about the club... He liked the idea, and we decided to really do something about...
...describe the "tangle of pathology" resulting from the breakdown of ghetto family life. But many liberals denounced his analysis as racist. In failing to address unpleasant realities, the Democrats handed conservatives harsh symbols -- from Reagan's "welfare queen" to the Bush campaign's Willie Horton -- with which to stoke white fury...
...than 1% of management-level bureaucrats and about 6% of the 764 Diet members. The average woman's annual income amounts to only half that of a man's. Why, then, aren't Japanese women angry? Why aren't they marching en masse for equality? Why didn't they stoke the spark of Onna no Jidai...
...report from the Resolution Trust Corporation is expected this month, and it figures to stoke congressional ardor to find scapegoats for the S&L mess. The report will examine transactions during 1988, when private investors, at the government's request, scooped up troubled S&Ls and then received whopping federal subsidies for doing so. In 94 cases, entrepreneurs like Ronald ! Perelman, owner of Revlon, and Texas billionaire Robert Bass wound up reaping, on average, $78 for each dollar they invested. Some who received this windfall have argued that their intervention was cheaper than allowing the bankrupt S& Ls to pile...
...despite my best efforts to stoke them, the fires of rage have cooled. Was Roger Ailes the prisoner and Willie Horton the political strategist or the other way around? And what does it all have to do with starvation in Ethiopia, anyway? Yet, thanks to the peculiar economics of the direct-mail business, a heart that bleeds only sporadically and selectively is worse than a heart that doesn't bleed...