Word: tan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roswell, Georgia, calls the sport "absolutely addictive; some people call it a disease." He hunts about 25 mornings a year during the birds' spring mating season, getting up at 3 a.m., driving an hour and a half, then lying in the brush of north Georgia in a green-and-tan camouflage suit, making improper suggestions in hen-turkey language to persuade sex-crazed gobblers to strut into shotgun range, tail feathers spread, beard wiggling, wings spread and lowered. Generally, Tull says, he drives back to work happy but turkeyless. The range of a turkey flock is small, he explains...
...member board of directors were re-elected with 80 percent support, despite dissident shareholders' charges that the board is too cozy with management to review allegations that ADM and several competitors fixed prices on major commodities. "It was clearly Andreas' show," reports TIME's William McWhirter. "He looked tan and fit and superconfident, so much so that at the very end, he plucked a red rose from a vase on the stage and popped it into his lapel." An accidental flourish: the meeting was held in an old gymnasium in an abandoned school next to ADM's main processing plant...
...begun to make some accommodations to age. He has become compulsive about working the phones while sunning on his Senate veranda -- the tan he works hard on, says a Senator, is his "secret weapon." Dole admits to putting "a little stuff'' on his hair to keep out the gray, although he insists he does not color his eyebrows. And he sometimes slips off to his new hideaway near his office for a nap on a couch that Dole nabbed when Senator Howard Metzenbaum retired last year...
...Garcetti, the Los Angeles district attorney with the deep tan and the chiseled face, is widely perceived to have micromanaged all the major moves in the Simpson case, from the early decision to file the charges in downtown Los Angeles rather than nearby Santa Monica, thus ensuring a mostly minority jury, to the decision not to seek the death penalty. It's a perception he denies, lavishly praising his prosecutors' strategic calls. But in an interview with Time late Friday, Garcetti took full responsibility for the state's presentation: "I can't promise the results of a case...
...forget the thousands of U.N. peacekeepers and the civilians caught in this war. With all due respect to Captain Scott O'Grady, these troops are in no way less heroic because their ordeal will last not merely for six days but for as long as this war continues. Shawn Tan Singapore...