Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the camera and says "I've been a cop for seventeen years and I've got every minute of this job written on my face" or adds "I could walk into Grand Central Station and everybody would know I'm a cop," he's almost too funny to bear. Yes, Newman has taken a lot of critical abuse in his twenty-five years of stardom and deserved most of it. No one can play the devilish rogue or the impudent egotist better than Newman with his wry grin and the irresistable twinkle in his eye. But, Newman dwells under...
...filers. It reduced the tax bill for the remaining 30% in proportion to the number of years they had filed. The scheme was to become permanent so that new residents who flooded the state during booms-like the one that marked the construction of the Alaska pipeline -would bear more of the tax burden. The second law was intended to pay out $100 million in earnings from an oil-revenue fund in ways even more favorable to sourdoughs. People over 18 were to receive $50 annually for each year of residence since 1959, the year Alaska became a state...
...Bear Creek Corp. turns out to be a kind of down-home conglomerate. It owns several companies, including the Fruit-of-the-Month Club and Jackson & Perkins, one of the country's best rose breeders. The fruit, the roses, various fancy foods and dwarf pines are sold by mail order all over the world. The ENJOY SHAKESPEARE ad was dreamed up by a celebrated fisherman named David Bascom, John Holmes, Bear Creek's president, and Vice President David Stump, an escapee from Orange County, Calif. The job offered is for Bear Creek's in-house advertising agency...
...candidates had to display their skill at writing mail-order copy-filling in blanks opposite catalogue pictures of rich chocolate cakes, golden Oregon peaches and those dwarf Christmas pines. The blend of gush and gusto that makes Bear Creek so successful is hard to match. Of the dwarf pine, one applicant writes, "A tree-mendous way to remember Christmas." Holmes and Stump groan. And groan again when confronted by "It's love at first bite"-about the nine-layer chocolate cake ($18.95 delivered...
LEBANON. President Elias Sarkis stunned delegates by calling for an end to the Palestine Liberation Organization's use of southern Lebanon as a base of operations for incursions into Israel. "Lebanon is no longer able to bear the death and destruction," said Sarkis. "I place the case in your hands, asking justice, and I am sure you are capable of this." P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat listened impassively, scribbling notes...