Word: turner
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Attorneys for Chicago Congressmen Mel Reynolds today demanded that sexual molestation charges against him be dropped, after a man stood up in court and announced that the charges against the two-term Democrat were bogus. The man, who identified himself as Reginald Turner, said he was an attorney for a Reynolds campaign volunteer, now aged 18, who had claimed the congressman had sex with her two years ago, when she was underage. Turner said she has now recanted her allegation. He then read a statement that he said she wrote, which states in part that she had been coached...
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That interest remained keen after Burton moved back to Hong Kong to take up a regional reporting beat that entails travel from Islamabad to Borneo, from Rangoon to the disputed Spratly Island of Layang Layang. With the collaboration of current TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz and correspondent Mia Turner, Burton kept current on the Chinese environmental saga, and the Three Gorges piece, which appears in this issue, is the result...
...studio's first offer wasn't quite magic: a TV sitcom based on the movie Turner & Hootch, in which Allen would co-star with a dog. Allen turned that down, along with two other proposals. Then he came up with his own idea: a series about the host of a TV handyman show. Disney teamed him with producer Matt Williams (the former producer of Roseanne), who added three kids to the mix and helped turn Home Improvement into TV's biggest family-show hit of the '90s. Allen's first movie went through a similar Disneyfication. The original script...
Things weren't always this way. Our country was founded and flourished on a strong work ethic, when men and women took pride in being self-sufficient, in working hard and being independent. Many historians, most notably Frederick Jackson Turner, suggest that the value of work and self-sufficiency on the frontier led to the development of our democratic government. Along with the dignity of work is the humiliation of not working, of being dependent on others. Other events, such as the Great Depression, branded the pain and humiliation of poverty onto the minds of entire generations...