Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Victor Posner, 67, another well-known corporate raider who lives in Miami Beach. Between 1984 and 1985, Posner paid about $80 million to acquire control of New York City-based Fischbach, the largest electrical contractor in the U.S. Boesky had also bought 13.4% of the shares of that company. In September, Posner was granted a new trial by a federal judge who overturned his July conviction on charges of evading $1.2 million in income taxes. Posner will neither confirm nor deny that he was subpoenaed...
...California State University at Long Beach, the administration has taken no action. "We feel that our students are intelligent enough when they read an editorial that they know who wrote the editorial and what it represents," said Eugene L. Asher, executive assistant to the president. UMASS-AMHERST COLLEGE...
...Imagine yourself on a beach, with the water slowly touching you...leave your body and float among the clouds, higher...into space. Then, take your crystal, expand it, step inside it and see the world in different shapes and patterns," begins Moore's image of affirmation...
...bright and cold along the deserted Connecticut beach, but inside a bar on this fall Sunday afternoon, it is dark and warm and crowded with men. The bar is thick with the sound of gruff voices and the smoke of Top Stone cigars and the odors of stale beer and newsprint from the sports sections of the Bridgeport Post-Telegram, the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, the New York Times, the New York Post and the New York Daily News, all of which are strewn about the small room. There is a darkened pool table in the corner. A silent...
...consistently in all of Dubus' fiction, including the stories in this book. Abstract critiques of U.S. society seem puny amid the welter of details and telling observations that the author provides. In Molly, the title character, a 15-year-old girl, goes riding with her new boyfriend toward a beach on the Atlantic. She looks out the window at a succession of small, working-class houses: "In the faces of a group of teenagers who stood under a tree and watched her and Bruce passing, she saw a dullness she thought was sculpted by years of television, of parents...