Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems just as eager to prove that he is Just Folks. Dubbed "American Reunion -- New Beginnings, Renewed Hope," the five-day Inaugural festivities begin on Jan. 17 with the Clintons and Gores riding their tried-and-true bus caravan from Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, in Virginia to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Inaugural organizers have invited the general public to join the motorcade...
Some of the cards in the catalog date as far back as Abraham Lincoln's presidency, and De Gennaro said that most patrons tend to bypass the yellowing records and go straight to HOLLIS...
...agreed to pay a near record fine of $400 million to settle a slew of cases charging it with failing to blow a whistle on S&Ls it audited. For example, say the feds, the firm failed to challenge fictitious sales of real estate made by the now defunct Lincoln Savings & Loan in order to inflate its reported profits. Ernst & Young might have been socked $1 billion if it had lost all the individual cases the government had pursued; now its 2,000 partners will pay only $100 million, insurers the other $300 million. But the prosecutors short-circuited...
...film reminded me of my first meeting with Malcolm X in 1960, at the Parker House in down-town Boston. We met to discuss the book by C. Eric Lincoln, The Black Muslims in America, which was just being published by Beacon Press. In the course of our conversation, I asked him why he was so angry--why wasn't he more like Martin Luther King? Malcolm X replied, "If you are sleeping and someone puts his hand in your pocket and is stealing your money (he meant your freedom) and you wake up, what are you going...
...knows invoking his predecessors is the way to America's heart: "Be faithful to the ideals of Jefferson and Washington; be faithful to the sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln; be faithful to the optimism of Franklin Roosevelt; be faithful to the faith in the future of John Kennedy...