Word: farleyism
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...fairy tale is heading for a no-no era denouement. In 1976 ex- encyclopedia salesman William Farley bought a California citrus processor with just $25,000 of his own money. Within years, he ruled over a multibillion-dollar empire. Then came Farley's folly: the 1989 leveraged buyout of sheet-and-towel giant West Point-Pepperell, for $1.6 billion. Burdened by debt, he endured the junk-bond collapse, the recession and the gulf war. But last week Farley accepted a "prepackaged" bankruptcy plan that will slash his share of West Point-Pepperell from 95% to 5%, the biggest blow...
...Margaret Gower is six on the day (Sept. 13, 1972) she comes home from school to learn that her mother has abandoned her and her father Walter, the rector of St. Cuthbert's Episcopal Church in the small Virginia town of Romulus. The mother has gone away with Madelyn Farley, a college friend who spends a night with the Gowers on her way back from a summer-theater job (she is a set designer) to her home in New York City. The bereaved daughter and her father, who periodically vanishes behind the "Black Curtain" of depression, rehash this brief visit...
After making it 3-1 on a score by forward Matt Saunders, the Huskies inability to keep up with the Eagle's quicker forwards finally caught up to them. Beran and Sean Farley scored to knot the game...
...Sebastian LePlante (18) (Peter Schure) 6:36; 2, N.U., Kenny (6)(unassisted) 7:07; 3, B.C., Matt Glennon (5) (Jeff O'Neill, David Pergola) 8:43, 4, N.U., Matt Saunders (10) (O'Connor) 11:48 shg; 5, B.C., Marc Beran (7) (Emma) 15:34 ppg; 6, B.C., Sean Farley (2) (Beran) 18:30. Penalties--B.C., Marty McInnis (holding) 10:18; N.U., O'Connor (hitting from behind...
...absentia. The judgment is questionable. Harold Hayes does not offer conclusive evidence about who committed the crime. It is enough that he has given us a picture of Fossey that is more complex than the ones offered in the film version of Gorillas in the Mist and in Farley Mowat's Woman in the Mists (1987). Hayes, former editor of Esquire, died last year of a brain tumor...