Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does work so hard at his reflexive nonimage. Though thin-skinned (ask any reporter who has criticized him in print), he almost never loses his temper. He never appears so much as shirtless in the locker room and changes from shorts into a fine Italian suit for each short walk from hotel room to team bus, because those few seconds may be the only time those particular fans crowding the lobby see him, and he wants to get it right. He is so polished that his few scrapes with indiscretion--losing tens of thousands of dollars in golf and poker...
...isolated case. Little League coaches in Runnemede, N.J., settled a suit for $125,000 after a fly ball injured an outfielder. In Stillwater, Okla., Karl Oltmanns, 68, a volunteer civic-group treasurer, paid $43,000 out of pocket to settle a funds-mismanagement case after his organization inadvertently let its directors' insurance lapse. On the nightmare chart, such cases rival a date with Freddy Krueger...
...given additional cash assistance for her new child. Advocates of the law, known as the family cap, called it a strike for personal responsibility, one that would force welfare parents to make the same family-planning decisions that working-class families do. Twenty-three other states followed suit...
When Klayman is in the mood for interrogation, it helps that one of his biggest cases is being heard in the court of U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth. A Ronald Reagan appointee, Lamberth has given Klayman considerable latitude to subpoena witnesses and seek materials in Klayman's "Filegate" suit, a $90 million invasion-of-privacy action against Hillary Clinton and others on behalf of former Reagan and Bush officials whose FBI files were improperly held by Clinton staff members. Lamberth has even ordered Stephanopoulos to pay part of Klayman's legal costs, because the former Clinton aide failed to search...
...will be taking an assistant professorship in the Government Department, replete with an office just downstairs from her own. Nikki had always imagined that her next encounter with the dashing Dante Rosario would find her stepping out of a limo on Wall Street in some chic Anne Klein suit. Instead, she's wearing a two-year old dress from Urban Outfitters and carrying her lunch in a plastic sack. Everything Nikki does to try and show Dante the success she's made of her life seems to pale in comparison with his accomplishments, making her thwarted attempts at revenge...