Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another controversy involved not how the Japanese think, but how we charge. VISA, a major sponsor of the Olympic Games, is coming to see that charge cards are not universal. In America, the magnetic strip is located on the back of the card; in Japan, that strip is located on the front. For this reason, there were only two machines in Nagano that previously accepted back-strip cards; VISA and the Japanese found themselves having to install new credit card processors that would accept foreign cards...
...Bill Clinton, when world leaders didn't risk their careers surreptitiously pursuing sex. They pursued it openly and risklessly. The Roman biographer Suetonius had this to say about the Emperor Augustus: "His friends used to behave like Toranius, the slave dealer, in arranging his pleasures for him--they would strip grown girls of their clothes and inspect them as though they were for sale...
Best-selling novelist Carl Hiaasen wrote those words, but you won't find them in yarns like Tourist Season or Strip Tease. Instead, Hiaasen was describing the real-life mayor of Miami in his newspaper column last month. "Mayor Loco," Hiaasen calls...
...supposed to work is something like this," says Blondie. "You're supposed to go to a crack house and make a buy, or have someone make it for you via a 'controlled buy.' To do that, you've got to strip the guy beforehand to make sure there is no other money on him. Then you give him some money and he makes the buy, and you strip him afterward to make sure he has no more money." Do it like that, he says, and the buy and subsequent arrest are legal...
...Even when you strip away his stop-your-heart and hold-your-breath record of achievements, he is just such an incredibly good person that he truly believes he must pay society back for the honors he has received," Nenshi said...