Word: arlington
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Dilger's 8-ft. cannon was in the back of his Dodge pickup truck when he pulled into a gas station in Arlington, Va. After filling up his gas tank, he started showing the weapon to his friend Joseph Donahue, a former Army pilot. Suddenly the gun slipped and discharged a shell, which tore through the side of the pickup, ignited a gasoline pump, hit a car and injured four people, three of them seriously. Dilger fled the scene but was arrested a short distance away. He and Donahue were charged with violating a state law against the manufacture...
...Rehnquist is known for quickness and efficiency. On most days he leaves the court at 3 p.m. to go swimming. He finds time for stamp collecting and oil painting (indeed, he skipped the President's State of the Union speech last February to go to his painting class in Arlington, Va.). He once even tried his hand at writing a novel about the intrigues of a federal appeals court in the Southwest (it was rejected by several publishers). At times Rehnquist has appeared slightly bored with the insular routine of the high court. Two years ago, to "refresh" himself...
Witty and relaxed, Rehnquist gets on well with the other Justices and their staffs. Clerks from other chambers sometimes invite him out to a local pub for beer and burgers, and he invites his former clerks to his house in Arlington to challenge them at croquet. A rumpled dresser, he prefers Wallabees and sweaters to wing tips and pinstripes...
...company's annual meeting, they expected a lively session. Only one day before, Gannett had agreed to buy Louisville's Pulitzer Prize-winning Courier-Journal and Times for about $300 million, outbidding both the Washington Post Co. and Chicago's Tribune Co. Within the past year, the Arlington, Va.-based media giant had acquired two other major newspaper companies that had come up for sale: the Detroit News and the Des Moines Register (total price: $917 million). "It's a little like winning the Triple Crown," Gannett Chairman Allen Neuharth had declared after the Louisville deal...
...adds, "because the couples are very playful, teasing and pinching each other's love handles." Though they share a basic philosophy, spas vary considerably in style. At the ultraluxe end of the scale are Maine Chance in Phoenix, the haven of Elizabeth Arden loyalists, and the Greenhouse in Arlington, Texas, where ladies dress for dinner and are whisked off to Neiman-Marcus for an afternoon's shopping. At the other extreme is the bare-bones Wooden Door in Lake Geneva, Wis. Guests pay as little as $365 for five days and bring their own sheets and towels...