Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sealed windows. Lyman, a teacher from Viroqua, Wis., came by last week after attending an education conference in Boulder. He adds, "The town is so clean-cut and sterile. Did anyone ever wonder about the dark side? There are so many things you have to be out of touch with before something like this can happen." Lyman asks, "When do you notice? When it gets to your town...
...went national by 1993 at a cost estimated at $20 million a year. The commercials thrilled the antiabortion camp. Says National Right to Life Committee president Wanda Franz: "They ran daily for years. It was the kind of campaign an organization like ours could never have begun to touch...
Until a Colorado grand jury indicted them for racketeering, James and Regina Rapp ran a $1.5 million-a-year business dredging up and selling confidential data on celebrities. Bruce Willis, Calista Flockhart, John and Patsy Ramsey and even the Columbine victims were marks for the couple's Touch Tone Information Acquisition, based in suburban Denver...
...National Enquirer, as well as banks, insurance companies and collection agencies. "The Rapps were passing on tons of stuff on any big names in the news," says Robert Brown, an agent for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. "The big question is, Did those who wanted the information know how Touch Tone was getting it?" Deputy District Attorney Dennis Hall of Jefferson County has little doubt: "It's like buying stolen property and getting it on the cheap. It's hard to believe that they didn't know it was obtained illegally...
...that disciplined future is a little hard to imagine when right now in the House, Republican super-whip Tom Delay is proudly spending next year?s surplus "and then some" just to make sure there?s no money left for Clinton except for what he promised he wouldn?t touch. "We will negotiate with the President, after he vetoes the bills, on his knees," DeLay said Thursday. And it?s hard to imagine Democrats, a year or two or five from now, having any more self-control when they?ve gotten sick of George...