Word: washed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emotion. Davis will no doubt draw comparisons to acts from various genres--you can hear Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman and even Stevie Wonder churning inside her songs. But like most true talents, she eludes direct matches. The gentle waves of her music beat against the shore, recede and then wash back again...
...worth 20% to 40% less than they were just a few months ago. Warns Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Norwest Corp., a large bank based in Minneapolis, Minn.: "The collapse of Hong Kong and other Asian economies is spreading like an oil slick that will continue to wash up on America's shores...
...think you've got sanitation requirements that you didn't have in the '60s, you now have laws about working conditions and sanitation and toilets in the field and cleaning facilities to wash your hands," Givens said. "You have legal requirements on pay and overtime that didn't exist for farm workers in the '60s. The laws in California were changed...
...highlight of the evening was reliving old favorites, and lang didn't disappoint in this arena either. After a rendition of "Wash Me Clean," a song about "tarnished dreams," lang joked, "I promised that, no matter how tough things got, we would never sell that song to a detergent company!" Her description of the distance between two lovers in Chris Isaak's "Western Stars," from her country album Shadowlands, was also magnificent. But the audience's unquestionable favorite was her version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," in which she lamented at what seems sometimes to be a universal female condition...
...were not allowed to wash ourselves in prison," Tapontsang said of one prison. "But most of the young women, including myself, were told by the commander to do the laundry and clean his quarters, were we were raped daily...