Word: paid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during a video shoot for Wicked Pictures, one of the leading adult production companies. I was writing a story about the $5 billion adult-entertainment industry, and she represented, in many ways, the heart and dark soul of that industry: a pretty, vivacious, surgically enhanced blond woman who was paid thousands of dollars to have sex on tape...
...cocaine ring three years ago, they opened a fully licensed--but also fully bogus--brokerage in suburban Atlanta to get inside the drug world. Even though the customers never made a single stock trade--double-digit stock gains are paltry in contrast to 400% returns on cocaine--the sting paid off last week with federal indictments of five Colombians, who are believed to have ties to the Cali drug cartel, on drug trafficking and money-laundering charges. The indictments capped an international operation in which authorities have so far arrested more than 40 people in the U.S. and abroad...
...other members of Congress vote for the G.I., who represents the price our nation has paid to protect freedom in the world. Give these brave men and women the credit and recognition they deserve for shaping our world and making history, and name the American G.I. as the Person of the Century. ROBIN HAYES, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 8th District, North Carolina Washington...
...expressed concern about the rights of Arabs in any Jewish state. Forced to quit Germany when the Nazis came to power, Einstein accepted an appointment at the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., a scholarly retreat largely created around him. (Asked what he thought he should be paid, Einstein, a financial innocent, suggested $3,000 a year. The hardheaded Elsa got that upped to $16,000.) Though occupied with his lonely struggle to unify gravity and electromagnetism in a single mathematical framework, he watched Germany's saber rattling with alarm. Despite his earlier pacifism, he spoke in favor...
...starters, if you equate nature with beauty--as Emerson and other transcendentalists tended to--then there is a kind of beauty in the unfolding of technology. It is a process of natural evolution, and may deserve the tribute that Darwin paid to organic evolution: "There is grandeur in this view of life...