Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beaten up "dozens of times," called "nigger" and had a beer bottle broken over his head. "I feel like we don't belong in our own home," he says. Which seems fine by those whites in Bridgeport whose greatest fear is encroachment from the Stateway projects, part of a stretch of high-rise ghettos on Chicago's South Side where the porches are caged in steel mesh, 70% of the residents are under the age of 17, and, in the words of Sarah Johnson, a 19-year-old mother, "You just keep the little kids inside the house and pray...
...doesn't have an agent yet, but former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun will make his movie debut in Steven Spielberg's Amistad. The role isn't a stretch: he plays former Justice Joseph Story. Without the aid of a p.r. rep, Blackmun released a statement saying he was honored to be "in Mr. Spielberg's significant film about our nation's struggle with slavery...
Best entrance: WOODY HARRELSON, who pulled up in a white stretch limo painted with naked women. He was accompanied by LARRY FLYNT, who had earlier been denied a ticket. Harrelson, resplendent in an Armani tuxedo made of hemp (although it looked like every other tux), got Flynt in. Flynt's glitter-encrusted tux, meanwhile, didn't look like anyone else...
...stretch an admittedly imperfect analogy, a parallel can be drawn between the addition of these states to the Union (the "naturalization" of these states, so to speak) and the naturalization of immigrants...
...after that." And, he says, "There's every indication that Friday's numbers will be very, very strong." To be considered a correction, the market typically has to lose 10 percent, in this case the Dow dipping to below 6400. That hasn't happened since 1990, the longest such stretch ever. Along with interest-rate fears, Kadlec says, are growing worries that reports on first-quarter corporate profits will be weak. Those will be out in a few weeks. Seeing such a string of potholes on the road ahead makes Kadlec think Wall Street could be headed for a bearish...