AA says it is " not organized in the formal or political sense ", and Bill Wilson called it a " benign anarchy ".

During this time, Gracen says she had a one-night stand with future President Bill Clinton.

Greg Whitten, an early Microsoft employee who developed the standards in the company's BASIC compiler line, says Bill Gates picked the name GW-BASIC.

Letterman also declared he did not know what he was thinking when he pulled the routine from the original show in 1993, saying, " It says more about me as a guy than it says about Bill because there was absolutely nothing wrong with that.

* Famous students who dropped out: Charles Eames ( who was expelled for defending modernist architecture ); Tennessee Williams ( who left in protest of not winning the poetry prize ); Enterprise Rent-a-Car founder Jack C. Taylor ( who withdrew to fight in World War II ); actor Robert Guillaume ( who withdrew to study opera ); Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Dedman ( who left to become a newspaper reporter ); and IQ-record holder Marilyn vos Savant ( who says she withdrew because she was bored ).

* In Tracy Letts ' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Bill Fordham uses the phrase to describe his marital problems with his wife Barbara when he says to her: " Just because you and I are struggling with this Gordian knot doesn't make me any less of a --"

He includes letters from Bill Moyers in his book, which he says are " a testament to a father's love for his son, a father's confusion with his son, and ultimately, a father's satisfaction with his son.

Bill says " Priest " Vallon was the last enemy he ever fought who was worthy of real respect, and " Priest " once beat Bill soundly and then let him live in shame rather than kill him.

Bill Bryson, in his book Notes From A Small Island about his travels around the UK in the 1970s, says he once found himself watching something on TV that appeared to be " My Neighbour Is A Darkie ".

" Bill Bryson says, " those writers who scrupulously avoid ' hopefully ' in such constructions do not hesitate to use at least a dozen other words – ' apparently ,' ' presumably ,' ' happily ,' ' sadly ,' ' mercifully ,' ' thankfully ,' and so on – in precisely the same way.

This resulted in a letter from the current co-chair of Lambda Legal to Bill Thom dated September 25, 2012 in which he says " The world is a vastly better place for LGBT people than when I started practice 20 years ago and is almost unrecognizable from the world in which you took on the heroic and unprecedented task of fighting back.

In the film he says, “ Atwater perceived, long before anyone else in American politics did, that the biggest threat to Bush was a guy from Arkansas named Bill Clinton.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says that a page one article by Kristof in January 1997 about child mortality in the developing world helped direct the couple toward global health as a focus of philanthropy.

( However, Mr. Hands did most of the violence himself, because Sluggo would tell him to, i. e. " Sluggo says to ...") The violence would inevitably escalate, generally ending with Mr. Bill being crushed or dismembered while squealing in a high pitched voice, " Ohhhh noooooooooooooo ..."

* In the 1980s, Mr. Bill was featured in advertising spots for Pringles Butter and Herb flavored Potato Chips, where he gets run over by a can of Pringles and says " oh no ".

When Mr. Hands finds Mr. Bill flattened with the dough on the side of the boulder, he says, " Great idea, Mr. Bill!

" Next, Mr. Hands tells Mr. Bill at a gym, " Your fitness instructor says to take it up a notch.

Luckily, Mr. Bill lands safely on a stationary bike, where he says, " Hey!

" A 1991 history of the Hearst Corporation co-authored by Bill Hearst and Jack Casserly says the company milked famous bylines for all they were worth, encouraging the star reporters to do as many diverse stories as possible to increase circulation and newsstand sales.

" Bill Joy, founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, says Gelernter is " one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time .” The New York Times called him a computer science " rock star ".

Bill James, in his Historical Baseball Abstract, says that " Lombardi was now the Bill Buckner of the 1930s, even more innocent than Buckner, and Buckner has plenty of people who should be holding up their hands to share his disgrace.

Interestingly, a new intermediate scene was added just after " You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two ", in which Bill Sikes enters the Thieves ’ Kitchen and “ negotiates ” with Fagin.

Scenes were also shot at the studio for Michaelangelo Antonioni's Zabriski Point ( back lot house explosion ), Paul Newman in Pocket Money, Bill Cosby's feature debut, Man and Boy ( western street ), and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure ( western street ).

In other words, as students go through college, those who are most successful academically tend to become more committed to a `` Bill of Rights '' orientation.

Among the notable alumni of AFI are: Darren Aronofsky, Jon Avnet, Keith D. Black, Wally Pfister, Stuart Cornfeld, Bill Duke, Edward James Olmos, Carl Colpaert, Rodrigo García, Steve Golin, Patrick Creadon, Amy Heckerling, Marshall Herskovitz, Janusz Kamiński, Matthew Libatique, Mimi Leder, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, John McTiernan, Paul Schrader, Frank Spotnitz, Mark Waters, Gary Winick, Edward Zwick, and Susannah Grant.

The rammer is " Tenure of Office Bill " and cannon balls on the floor are " Justice ".

The Jenerators are a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles, CA featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars and keyboards ; Bill Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion ; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass ; Miguel Ferrer on vocals, percussion and drums ; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals and Chris Ross on drums and percussion.

In Britain, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a constitutional monarchy restricted by laws such as the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701, although limits on the power of the monarch (' a limited monarchy ') are much older than that ( see Magna Carta ).

Pablo Picasso's style and name are known even to people who are not interested in art ; likewise many know that Harry Houdini was an illusionist, Bill Gates, an entrepreneur, Albert Einstein a scientist ; Mozart and Beethoven classical composers ; Luciano Pavarotti an opera singer.

In discussing the legislation to dissolve Dublin County Council, Avril Doyle TD said, " The Bill before us today effectively abolishes County Dublin, and as one born and bred in these parts of Ireland I find it rather strange that we in this House are abolishing County Dublin.

The normalized approach, also called the 3NF model, whose supporters are referred to as “ Inmonites ”, believe in Bill Inmon's approach in which it is stated that the data warehouse should be modeled using an E-R model / normalized model.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

As of 2011, its state senator is Republican Janéa Holmquist Newbry, and its two state representatives are Republicans Judy Warnick and Bill Hinkle.

John Smedley, Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover and Bill Trost who jointly are credited with creating the world of EverQuest have repeatedly pointed to their shared experiences playing MUDs such as Sojourn and TorilMUD as the inspiration for the game.

Coach H. W. " Bill " Hargiss ' " Presbies " are said to have featured the play in a 17 – 0 victory over Washburn University and in a 107 – 0 destruction of Pittsburg State University.

At present, there are five living former first ladies: Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter ; Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan ; Barbara Bush, wife of George H. W. Bush ; current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton ; and Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush.

According to demographers Bill Strauss and Neil Howe, there are approximately 88. 5 million Gen Xers in the U. S. today.

According to Bill Bryson, there are many suggestions for the derivation of the word, but none is universally accepted.

In Spiked, Brendan O ' Neill, of Irish descent, uses the term to describe " second-generation wannabe " Irishmen and writes that some of those guilty of " Plastic Paddyism " ( or, in his words, " Dermot-itis ") are Bill Clinton, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Shane MacGowan.

* 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives ; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights ; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.

More prosaically, Clark cites Bill Moore, who asserts that " the Men in Black are really government agents in disguise ... members of a rather bizarre unit of Air Force Intelligence known currently as the Air Force Special Activities Center ( AFSAC ) ... As of 1991, the AFSAC, headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia ," and " under the operational authority of Air Force Intelligence Command centered at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.

* 1996 – U. S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.

Consequently, the English Bill of Rights ( 1689 ) declared, amongst other things: " that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law ..." and " that the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defense suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law.

In a 2005 speech, Lord Woolf described it as " first of a series of instruments that now are recognised as having a special constitutional status ", the others being the Habeas Corpus Act ( 1679 ), the Petition of Right ( 1628 ), the Bill of Rights ( 1689 ), and the Act of Settlement ( 1701 ).

Constitutional rights are protected under common law and are strengthened by the Bill of Rights Act 1990 and Human Rights Act 1993, although these are not entrenched and can be overturned by Parliament with a simple majority.