Word: troy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mudd sometimes degenerates into blatant name-dropping. He uses Troy, the Pyrennes, the Spanish Coast, and London for effect, without giving any reason for choosing these places. Like Frank Sinatra in "New York, New York" booming, "the city that never sleeps," Mudd tends to thumbs his nose at us ill-educated boors who have never travelled to Europe or seen the Trojan ruins...
...division title was on the line. Sowe went all out," said Soba's Strve Troy. "We're definitely going to win the whole thing now but we really want Lowell bad. We want to beat up on them. I can taste it now," he added...
...million new black voters have registered for this year's election, according to Joseph Madison of the N.A.A.C.P. A Chicago group last month signed up 40,000 new voters, largely by sending vans to the city's unemployment and welfare offices. Says Congressional Delegate Walter Faun troy of Washington, D.C.: "There is more black voter registration than at any time since the Voting Rights Act was passed...
Jane Fonda is not "raising her two daughters," because she has only one, Vanessa, by Roger Vadim. Her other child is Tom Hayden's son Troy...
...assistant corporate counsel. "If GM gets hit with a $1 million claim, it raises the price of its cars. When the city gets hit with $1 million, it lays off ten policemen. The people are going to lose." Some municipalities, especially small ones, have to raise taxes. Troy intends to hike property taxes an average of $200 per household. Concedes Steven Berry, the winning lawyer in the Troy suit: "Citizens can end up footing the bill for mistakes by people they have either elected or hired to act competently. There is a problem there...