Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slalom Specialist Tomba should dominate today. Sentimental favorite: Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark, the aging (nearly 32) double gold winner at Lake Placid. -- The grand battle of the Car mens. Thomas and Witt both skate a final program to the same opera's music -- the foray a d'or each must...
...discussing the netherworld of basketball arenas, talking of crowd control, relish, ramps. Or would it be better to start life over again with the lady cop in the subway? She looked mighty fetching in blue. A life of summonses and judo. Or the solemn woman at the rent-a-car counter? A prospect of long nights spent writing their initials inside little circles. The cashier at the A&P? The jogger with the Westie? The Captain confesses that he is much taken with that lanky public defender on TV, the one who never smiles and who dresses like Alcott...
After his plane touched down at Denver's Stapleton airport last month, Skier Jeff Blumenfeld hurried to the Avis desk and signed up for a rental car at the daily fee of $44. It seemed like an attractive price; for his four-day trip, the New York City executive figured he would pay around $180. But Blumenfeld's final bill came to a more daunting $253.30. Says he: "You go to a rental-car agency, and you don't know what it's going to cost you. They nickel and dime you to death...
Many travelers would agree. Increasingly high fees for coverage against damage, theft and other hazards can more than double the price of a car rental. A recent Hertz special, advertised at $99 for seven days, would actually cost $230.95 for full protection. Consumer advocates argue that many motorists do not need such coverage. "Car-rental companies try to intimidate customers into buying this insurance," says Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization...
...Raiders play a hard-hitting brand of hockey. But since defeating the Crimson, they've stumbled on hard times. Prized goaltender Wayne Cowley was injured in a car accident and is still recuperating. And the Raiders dropped a pair of games to Princeton. not one of the league's powerhouses...