Word: washed
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...Louisiana, where his parents divorced when he was two (he hasn't seen his father since) and his mother died when he was four, leaving him in the care of her sister and brother-in-law Bertha and James Louis. At six, he moved with them to Bremerton, Wash.--a journey made difficult by segregation laws that shut them out of hotels, rest rooms and diners--and later to Sacramento, where Connerly's uncle worked in a lumberyard. As a child, Connerly found work running errands, helping a carpenter, hawking ice water to laborers. "I was a little hustler...
...seems TIME is no longer driven by news events but rather by fads. ROBERT M. KRIMMEL Vashon, Wash...
...pursue cleanup contracts. That company gave $100,000 to the Democratic Party last June. Three months later, the new partners were awarded a $27 million contract from Grumbly's staff to propose a clean-up strategy for one of the nation's most polluted nuclear sites, in Richland, Wash. The contract qualified the companies to bid later for the $5 billion cleanup...
...REDMOND, Wash.: Aiming to take over your television screen as well as your desktop, , Bill Gates scooped up an 11.5 percent chunk of Comcast , the country's sixth largest cable operator. That gives him Comcast's stake in @Home Network , an online service that uses cable modems to provide rapid access to the Internet. TIME Business editor Bill Saporito?s view? ?Now Bill's got himself a delivery truck. Cable is such a capital-intensive industry because of the equipment. So for Comcast, which has a lot of debt, money is always welcome. It's not really a big deal...
...downplaying, the stigma of number three was too difficult to wash away in a snap. Many students were baffled that the home of Crimson Cash, The Tasty and Cornel West '74 was not the hands-down winner...