Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember, back in the day (during my first year), when reading period was reading period. It was an unbroken stretch of days in which you could embark upon the process of psychologically preparing yourself for those fearsome three hour trials by fire that lay ahead. The weather that spring of my first year was better than this semester and I was, ahem, perhaps less than attentive to my studies during the term than I should have been...
What to do? At one extreme, a Republican bill would repeal the tax entirely. At the other, the White House would merely let heirs to family-owned farms and businesses stretch out payments over 14 years, as now, but defer more tax and pay lower interest on it. The most likely basis for compromise is a G.O.P. bill that has picked up some Democratic support. It would raise the general exemption from $600,000 to $1 million; farms and businesses would be taxed only on half of any amount over $1.5 million...
That is a zealot's stretch. But the trend toward "strategic philanthropy"--giving in a way that benefits the corporate bottom line--is unmistakable. In the lean and mean 1990s, companies are taking a close look at where every penny they give away goes. More and more, they are focusing on areas that resonate with their customers. So Whirlpool, whose main customers are mothers, concentrates on funding things like child care and job training for women...
...felt I was rookie of the year even if I didn't get the award," Iverson said, "but I wanted it bad. As a rookie, I think I made the most impact." Many felt that Iverson's claim on the trophy was secure after an end-of-the season stretch in which he scored 40 or more points in five straight games, a record for NBA rookies. The 22-60 Sixers lost all five games...
...been everything from a longshoreman to a film director and has played everyone from Thurgood Marshall to Simon of Cyrene, so SIDNEY POITIER's new role shouldn't be that much of a stretch. The actor has been named the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. Poitier has dual American-Bahamian citizenship (his parents were Bahamian tomato farmers who sold their produce in Florida, where he was born). The job does not come with an embassy in Tokyo, and Poitier will practice his diplomacy from the comfort of his own home. But he did pay a visit to Emperor Akihito to present...