Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chain who had been secretary to the shadow cabinet, was installed as her personal chief of staff. Sir Derek Rayner, 53, joint managing director of Marks & Spencer, one of Thatcher's own favorite shopping haunts, was named chief waste cutter, as it were. His assignment is to cut fat and improve efficiency in the overgrown bureaucracy of Whitehall...
...credit, though, Roberts has never stopped trying to get a little ink for himself, pleading time and time again over the years to put his name in the paper as the team's number one fan, or to quote him as manager. He became very familiar with the response, "Fat chance...
...cover story on Exxon in 1974, interviewed Exxon executives and other oil gamesters for this week's story, and found the situation markedly changed. "I didn't realize five years ago that I was seeing the end of an era," he says. "Oilmen then were still somewhat fat and happy, confident that they'd surmount the energy crisis." This time, Tompkins saw the oil chiefs as "sadder, thinner and less optimistic...
Raffi also found misfortune on the same par three 17th that plagued Dales and Lowenstein. He hit a fat three-iron from the tee that kerplopped into a bunker, and then he bladed his sand wedge shot over the green. After taking a double bogey there, however, he came back to birdie the par five 18th...
Then there are Fred Shero's Rangers. A few weeks ago, the Manhattanites were a big, fat, ugly question mark over the playoffs. But their impressive romps over Philadelphia--winning 7-1, 5-1, 6-0 and 8-3 after losing game one in OT--have Islander fans on edge...