... to "Come Up to the Kool Taste," and promising them that smoking a Kool was "Like riding a Rolls Royce." (My note: I remember these ads clear up into the early 1990s.) To make furtherinroads, the tobacco companies loudly supported the Civil Rights Movement and later made regular and significant contributions to organizations like the NAACP, the United Negro College Fund, and the Leadership ...
... Jackson's music was and still is part of the soundtrack of my life. So I watched as everyone started caring about this man again. MJ shaped my musical landscape when I was a wee lass in the early 1990s. The first piece of music I ever owned was Thriller on cassette tape. One of our home's first CDs was Bad . Don't even get me started with Moonwalker and Captain EO . I remember trying to do...
...left out of this. I think it's the school system overall that failed me in some ways, and I wonder if this uber-discipline is still a problem in today's school systems, public or not. So what did we learn today, kids? We were all dorks in the 1990s, life was so much less complicated, but overall I wouldn't recommend insane Catholic nuns as teachers. I may cross-post to Facebook at some point.
For a while in the 1990s I was obsessed with Nirvana. The band encouraged me to learn guitar, I smoked dope to their records, I met a girl because of them, i sat glued to the radio for days after his suicide... you know, all those things that the nerdy indie kids did around that time. So how did I never listen to Nevermind in its totality? That's right, as a "junior high" know-it-all I ...
... FDA resources on protecting the public health, not burdening it with an impossible assignment." Contributions to federal candidates, committees and parties from the industry have fallen dramatically since the late 1990s, when companies gave almost $10 million each year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In 2006, the tobacco industry donated $3.5 million, with Altria Group and ...
Cat on top of the world Originally uploaded by rfmcdpei This, likely one of Vince Graham 's several late1990s cat statues marking the southern perimeter of Kensington Market--compare his "Home again, home again" statue of a cat poised on a chair--is one of my favourite piece of public art. Doesn't the majestic cat's pose look so . . . justified?
... Wagstaff and other administrators are betting that the state will rescue the "welfare to work" program. But they are bracing for cuts that would slash benefits to the lowest levels since the late1990s , when CalWORKs began as part of the federal government's bold reform of the welfare system. "It would be a huge regression," said Nancy O'Hara, assistant director of the Yolo County Department...
... priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75. He reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990ssyndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues." He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino 's two-part saga " Kill Bill ." The character, the worldly ...
\ In the early 1990s , a wealthy businesswoman, Judith DePaul , and her company IBP Aerospace negotiated an agreement with Tupolev and NASA, (also Rockwell and later Boeing). They offered a Tu-144 as a testbed for its High Speed Commercial Research program, intended to design a second-generation supersonic jetliner called the High Speed Civil Transport. In 1995, Tu-144D [reg 77114] built...
.... I have professionally studied the policies and atrocities of the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, Stalin's actions of the 1930s through the 1950s, Pol Pot, the Armenian Genocide, the Balkan Genocide of the 1990s, as well as torture and execution methods from the ancient Egyptians to the modern day. I started reading up on this when I was a pre-teen, because it intriguesthe hell out of me, when ...
