Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...really pushed the boys to succeed was their mother Dolores, 53, a handsome, strong-willed woman whose strict Roman Catholic education gave her a sense of order that she tried to impart to her children. "It was very important for me," she says, "that they would have some aesthetic thing that they could express themselves through...
...generally younger audiences attracted by Marsalis and his colleagues are of course nowhere near the size of the enormous market that routinely sends pop records over the million mark -- and probably never will be. Nonetheless, acoustic jazz has become a steady, moneymaking enterprise for many record companies. For one thing, jazz is a low-overhead business: production budgets range from $25,000 to $85,000 an album, in contrast to $150,000 for rock records. That means the companies can start to make profits on as few as 30,000 sales. (Marsalis' sales range from 52,000 for Live...
...widening effort to limit the service of lawmakers at both the state and federal level. Last month Oklahoma voters approved a measure that will restrict state legislators to a maximum of 12 years in office. Californians will have their choice of ballot initiatives next month to do the same thing; public-opinion polls show overwhelming approval. In Colorado a proposed amendment to the state constitution would go even further: it would limit state legislators to eight consecutive years in office and members of Congress to 12. The Colorado proposal raises the question of whether states have the constitutional right...
...superstar, publisher HarperCollins last month agreed to pay Burrough $1 million for a book on American Express and the smear campaign it waged in the 1980s against international banker Edmond Safra. "I was absolutely stunned," Burrough said of the cash advance. "To me, the money is not a real thing. It's kind of like it's happening to someone else...
...President and his men naturally downplayed the political damage. Bush told reporters that "these things come and go. The best thing, we get a budget deal, we get a good deal, and people will forget the name calling." But when a budget deal is passed, Bush may have little influence over it, and will have trouble dispelling his image of weakness...