Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process that may take another year. Then it could become a federal crime even to disturb the owl's habitat, and multitudes of buzz saws that have been felling the trees would have to stop. Loggers warn that unemployment would follow. Sad, but not as ineffably sad or final as extinction...
Limited editions are in particular demand. Edd Roush, a .323-lifetime hitter with Cincinnati and the Giants during the '20s, died last year at 94. His final days were put to use keeping up with a mail-order frenzy for his trembling signature...
...family huddles around the Taos, N. Mex., bedside of an aged aunt to hear her final addled reverie of childhood, the dying woman whisks off a grizzled wig to reveal blond locks, sits bolt upright and brays delightedly at having sneaked in one last prank. At the sight of this transformation, the daughter's attitude shifts from terror to wonder. Moments later, she and the dying woman are jumping on the bed as though it were a trampoline, mingling the old one's romantic memories with the child's geography game in exultant shouts of "Zanzibar! Zanzibar...
...tattoos on many thighs. A former Hollywood bit actor resumes his role as the "talking chief" of Leone, leading his villagers through hymn-inflected island chants and primal dances. And then, just before Governor Peter Coleman, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega and various other dignitaries get ready to join in the final swaying dance, a village chorus sits on the ground, chants its age-old traditions and dramatically, for its climax, flashes -- what else? -- an American flag...
Given the abysmal track record of start-up airlines over the past ten years, investors are reluctant to enter the airline business except as buyers of existing carriers. Says wheeler-dealer Donald Trump: "There is still room for entrepreneurs in the industry." Trump's nearly final $365 million agreement to buy Eastern's shuttle operations was put in jeopardy again last week when Phoenix-based America West Airlines offered to pay some $25 million more for the shuttle, plus $335 million for ten additional Eastern aircraft. Northwest, meanwhile, is trying to fight off a takeover by Denver oilman Marvin Davis...