Word: fitters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about a little red sports car. Your son, the Nintendo addict, wants a new computer. You'd love some cash for your daughter's college education and to buy a tractor for yourself. And maybe, just maybe, you could quit your $32,000-a-year job as a pipe fitter...
...terrible at first. "I might shoot one or two out of 10," he says. "Or sometimes I would miss 10 out of 10." Gillette sent down former Boston Celtics star Dave Cowens to give him pointers. "Dave says I shoot like a pipe fitter. And I do," Bobby concedes with a laugh. "At 45 years old, when you're learning to shoot, you feel sorta awkward." Bobby learned to push the ball off with one hand instead of throwing it with two. And, with Cowens' help, he did improve his average to almost...
...pipe fitter gets -- and blows -- the chance of a lifetime...
...Ireland. Yet the performances also have the delicacy and nuance that comes from long consideration. They suggest all the tacit tolerance, the willful blindness, that makes family life possible, and also the tragic inevitability that even inside a household there will be competition, and some survivors will prove fitter than others...
...hopes to blossom into a supermodel must meet certain minimum requirements. Elite's Pillard reels them off: she must be at least 5 ft. 9 in., bone thin, have full lips, high cheekbones, large eyes, long legs and a straight, not too prominent nose. Models today are taller and fitter than those of previous generations, with fuller lips and bigger breasts. "The models are still skinny," comments Susan Moncur, 41, a semiretired Paris model, "but with big tits -- real or false...