Word: forks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Should a party in a divorce case have to fork over money never earned? Yes, if the person basically threw it away, according to a New York state judge. Mark Gastineau, the former New York Jets defensive end known for his opponent- taunting dances, walked out on the team after only six games of the 1988 season to spend time with his fiancee, actress Brigitte Nielsen. Gastineau was then earning $46,000 a game. Last month the judge ruled that Gastineau's wife Lisa, who had sued for divorce in 1986, was owed one-third of Gastineau's forfeited salary...
Ironically, this may turn out to be good news. By demanding that the Balts fork over what amounts to reparations for living under Soviet occupation for 51 years, Moscow seems to have conceded the principle of freedom and opened the bidding on its price. "We are ready to start negotiations any time," says Lithuanian Vice President Ceslovas Stankevicius...
...statements like 'The food looks pathetic,' " urges a guidebook) to the arcane (a third of the predinner cocktail hour is devoted to group instruction in the body language of handshaking and other niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive: "Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins, excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which side of the plate they can find the knife...
...Bennett is a good pitcher," Durand said. "He has a great fork-ball...Next year, though, they're [Harvard] going to win those one-run games...
...small towns go, Algona embodies the American Dream. Nestled along the East Fork of the Des Moines River, it is a quietly prospering place for 6,015 men, women and children. And unlike so many other Iowa communities, its economy isn't entirely tied to corn. Algona is the county seat, the home of a Snap-on Tools plant as well as some other light manufacturing, so it is more resistant to the farm recessions that periodically smite neighboring towns...