Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contract's major "improvement"--a plan to expand the October playoffs to include eight teams--will only further serve to hurt the integrity of the game. Baseball remains the only sport where the regular season, with its 162 games and rigorous travel, means something...
...when he first saw someone get shot. "It was at a party," he says. "This guy was hit in the chest with a .25. He just dropped." So far, Mike claims, he's been shot at five times, including the big gunfight last August, which persuaded him not to travel unarmed. "Sometimes you need a gun to get out of a situation," he says. "You could be in a parking lot just kicking it, and people start shooting...
...issue -- if anything so frivolous can be called an issue -- was whether a performer can use material created for a program owned by another network. "There are certain intellectual-property issues that do not travel with Dave," warned peacock president Robert C. Wright on NBC's summer press tour, referring to such Letterman shtick as Stupid Pet Tricks, Larry "Bud" and the Top 10 List. "If CBS thought they were buying that, they didn't . . . They can certainly do things like that. But they can't do those things...
...projects, but leaned on in almost every facet" of their lives. As deputy in the counsel's office, he was among those who attracted much of the criticism in the early days of the Administration over insufficiently vetting nominees and the abrupt firing of seven members of the travel office. He had become a target of Wall Street Journal editorials about the "legal cronies from Little Rock," but he had laughed it off, calling it, says a colleague, "b.s. stuff." He was the one, Clinton recalled, who bucked up others, always the protector who never seemed in need of protection...
...story in the back pages or didn't publish it. Increasingly frustrated by second-rate assignments and alienated from her peers, Nelson veered toward an emotional breakdown. Her last months at the Post were marred by a suspension after she foolishly forged the initials of a supervisor on a travel voucher...