Word: darkness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This was years ago when Vukonich and Stauber were "squirts," skating in the youth hockey leagues of Duluth, Minn. Every night, Vukonich would stay at the outdoor rink until after dark and then run home, stick poised against intruders from the night...
...those days called them films -- the way General Electric did refrigerators and Ford did cars. The stories of their often comical obtuseness have since filled several hundred memoirs. "Who wants to see some dame go blind and die?" asked Jack Warner when Davis said she wanted to make Dark Victory. But he reluctantly gave in, and the story of the dame who goes blind and dies was one of Warner Bros.' biggest hits...
...plump man with steady dark eyes and a soft voice, Koskotas is no common embezzler. In addition to the Bank of Crete, he owned Grammi, a flourishing publishing empire that operated five magazines, three newspapers and a radio station. He bankrolled big hotels. A year ago, he bought Greece's wildly popular soccer team, Olympiakos. He created one of the world's most advanced printing plants. And until he fled Greece, Koskotas consorted freely with the country's ruling Socialist leaders. At 34, George Koskotas, the Greek wunderkind, had achieved a dazzling reputation in his own land...
Among the dark, walled fortresses of U.S. penology, Stillwater is considered a well-secured country club with a relatively mellow population. It is a kind of felon's Lake Wobegon where gangs do not rule and sex offenders outnumber those who have killed; a prison where only the guards wear uniforms and only four of them carry firearms. Other U.S. prisons are overcrowded, but each Stillwater resident has a cell of his own, a TV if he chooses to buy one, and ready access to a dozen phones mounted on the wall beneath the towering, barred windows of the cellblock...
...their patients become parents as a result of IVF. But some lesser operations apparently cite similar potential success rates in their come-ons, even though their own performance may be far worse. Says Geoffrey Sher, medical director of San Francisco's Pacific Fertility Center: "The consumer is in the dark. A startling number of programs have never had a single baby born, and they are still quoting statistics." Doctors can start up clinics even if they have little experience or specialized training. "It's very easy for the medical profession to take advantage of infertile couples because they so desperately...