Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Commentators like James J. Kilpatrick toss out the phrase to register contempt for a federal complex preoccupied with its own navel. William Safire says the phrase connotes something "of interest to tea-leaf readers of Washington goings-on but (is) strictly a yawner to the World Out There." Author Ben Wattenberg defines "inside the Beltway" as the "exponential expansion of what used to be the Georgetown cocktail party--elitism that has lost touch...
...final production of the regular season will be a fresh version of Sophocles "Oedipus Rev," to be directed by ARI cast member Ben Halley Jr. Halley terms the project "a metaphysical theatrical experienced that is rooted in the community of the human soul...
...DIED. Ben Abruzzo, 54, ballooning adventurer who braved sub-zero temperatures, raging storms and "cold sinks" in historic first balloon crossings of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; in the crash of a twin-engine Cessna 421 plane; in Albuquerque. With fellow New Mexico Businessmen Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, Real Estate Developer Abruzzo flew the helium-filled Double Eagle II on a six-day journey from a Maine meadow to a French wheatfield in 1978. Three years later, with Newman and two others, he took off in Double Eagle V from Nagashima, Japan, and crash-landed in Northern California...
...last year pulled their money out of stocks in favor of safer havens, like money-market funds or Treasury bills. Says Terry Riordan, an E.F. Hutton account executive in Chicago: "There's a lot of excitement. I don't think anyone wants to miss out on this." Observes Ben Bratter, a vice president with Prudential-Bache Securities in Minneapolis: "Nothing infuriates people more than friends' telling them about the money they just made in the market...
...Richard Jackson (H) d. Ben Fortenbaugh...