Word: bor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convince everyone what true fans of the game they are. Some even bring bags with four or five rackets. (You never know when Chrissie or Andre or Mac is going to need a partner, I suppose.) Listen to their hushed analysis of Becker's last double fault--"The Bor-meister is going to have to get that serve in if he wants to win this game." Watch them willingly pay 35 bucks for a white T-shirt with a little "Fila" logo. They all deserve to be locked in a room with Bud Collins and Ilie Nastase...
...father came in and said, 'How would you like to play football for Mr. Leffingwell [a neigh, bor]?'" Wilkinson says. "I'd never played before but I said, 'Sure...
...Bor-ing. That's life for Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum), a Los Angeles aerospace engineer who is so tired of his lot that he can't go to sleep. Something keeps him from closing his eyes. Is he hooked on banality? For its first 15 minutes, this movie certainly is. It falls in with Ed's somnolent gait, trudging through tapioca as Ed aimlessly drives to the airport after spying his wife making sex with her boss. By the time Ed nods over his steering wheel, you are getting very . . . sleepy...
...result of the austerity policies imposed after Yitzhak Shamir succeeded Menachem Begin as Prime Minister last October, Israel's unemployment is also an increasing concern. Cohen-Orgad acknowledges that the fig ure may triple, to 30,000 (2.5%), this year. There has already been widespread la bor unrest. Defense minis try employees have been on a work slowdown for two months. Last week the nation's railroad workers went out on strike, while postal employees caused major disruptions in mail service and all 60,000 of the country's civil servants went on strike for three hours...
...sure, was more frustrated about that than Administration officials, who charge that Israel has played one delaying game after another in the talks. Israel's main demand is for arrangements that will guarantee security along its bor der with Lebanon. It has given up a request for a permanent 750-man Israeli presence in the country, but instead wants the 1,200-man militia of Major Saad Haddad, a renegade Lebanese army officer who has acted as an Israeli surrogate in southern Lebanon, to form a special unit in the Lebanese army assigned to the border area. Israel...