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...Rockies are especially fertile ground for a proliferation of workers who, like Tipple, are variously known as the telecommuters, the modem cowboys or, as Philip Burgess, president of the Denver think-tank Center for the New West, puts it, the "lone eagles." Burgess agrees that "what's happening in the Rockies is not unlike what happened in California in its golden years." But he emphasizes a big difference: "In the Rocky Mountain region, it's not taxi drivers anymore -- it's professional people who realize they can locate anywhere and live by their wits. Many were middle managers who were...
...with nothing.) But to give benefits -- partly tax-free, no less* -- to people who don't need them? We simply can't afford it. If you're over 50, perhaps the greatest thing you could do for Bill Clinton is rip out this page and send it to Lovola Burgess, president of the American Association of Retired Persons (601 E St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20049). Otherwise, the minute Clinton proposes anything that would pinch affluent retirees in any way, the AARP leadership will squelch it -- along with America's chance to get its house in order...
...Batman TV series, Burgess Meredith played Penguin as a kind of deranged F.D.R. This was not for DeVito. "I didn't see myself playing a weird Nick Charles with a martini glass and a tuxedo," he says. "It just didn't tickle my fancy." Then Burton showed him a painting he had done of "a toddler with a big round head and big eyes and a protrusion in the nose and mouth and a bulbous body with little appendages. And there was a caption that said, 'My name is Jimmy, but they call me the hideous penguin...
AUTHOR: MUSIC BY LEE POCKRISS; LYRICS BY ANNE CROSWELL; BOOK BY GRANVILLE BURGESS...
Unfortunately, they've chosen the wrong bar. A place as popular as the Heartbreak Hotel gets plenty of prank calls, bomb threats among them. So when a would-be terrorist (Daniel Von Bargen) calls to makes his demands, owner Jeff Burgess (Dan Welch) is nonchalant. "Sorry," he quips, "we don't take bomb threats over the phone...