Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They kept on sending letters that said, 'Give me so much money,' " recalls Gerald Colf, 84. "So I did the job I was asked to do." Indeed he did. Colf, a retired home contractor who lived in Hermosa Beach, Calif., gave away more than $4,200 of his life savings last year to 27 conservative groups that solicited him by mail. Overdrawn at his bank, Colf began selling old newspapers for cash and scrounging in trash cans for food...
DIED. Nathan Cummings, 88, contentious Canadian-born businessman who in 1939 took over an ailing Baltimore coffee and tea company and, through both internal growth and acquisitions, transformed it into Consolidated Foods, ranked 49th among FORTUNE 500 companies, whose brands include Sara Lee cakes and Fuller Brush; in Palm Beach...
...between radio and video," he said. "The radio is and will always be in the theater of the mind. What people want when they listen to the radio is the medium in general. You can't watch a music video when you're in your car or at the beach...
Citing David Lee Roth's rendition of the 1960's Beach Boys' California Girls," Ginsburg said. "They took an oldie song and brought it into the 80s with a lot of fun and a lot of appeal...
Though tanning parlors do their biggest business from January to May, catching indoor rays is becoming a year-round pastime. Some palefaces like to establish a base tan before going on vacation; others simply prefer the tanning parlor to a trek to the beach. "I used to call in to work sick so that I could lie out in the sun," says Lola Lanza, 41, of Houston. "Now I can just come here on my lunch hour." Jeannie Frazier, 25, who spends $60 a month to cultivate her tan, maintains that a salon is "better than...