Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Margot Timmins brought the show to a close, she muttered a humble "Thank you" and poured herself a final...
Though he certainly cannot claim to have worked any miracles, Clinton can point to some solid accomplishments. A common saying in Arkansas used to be "Thank God for Mississippi" -- because if it were not for Mississippi, Arkansas would have been at the absolute bottom among all 50 states in many measures of wealth and social progress. Under Clinton, however, the state has begun inching ahead of some others too and acquiring a new self-confidence that it can be something more than a poverty-stricken backwater. "The state is far better off than before he came along," says Max Howell...
...wanted to write to thank your circulation department. Had it not been for your inconsistent delivery service, I would have fallen prey to another April Fool's joke. Tony C. Hsieh
...seen as a talisman of America's long-term economic decline, rather than just as a cyclical downturn. The House-bank scandal underscores the impression that Congress is mired in corruption. "There's something out there of major significance," says University of Texas political scientist Walter Dean Burnham. "Thank God we're not a culture that produces Fuhrer figures very easily. Because the underlying conditions that do that are in the process of being formed...
...foreign service's most uptight and insular postings. He frequently eats in the staff cafeteria, and at a recent meeting lectured the staff on the dangers of workaholism, urging them to try to spend more time with their families. Afterward a woman approached in tears to thank him. Old State Department ways die hard, however. For months Strauss tried to reverse the department's ban on hiring Russians for menial embassy tasks, but U.S. security officers insisted that for every two Russian workers there had to be one American "watcher." Says Strauss: "That didn't make any damn sense...