Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fort Knox at home can range from a $200 one, 9 in. in diameter and 15 in. deep with a solid-steel door, to the $26,000 British-made Tann safe, complete with glass panels, double doors and maddeningly intricate bolt slips...
After the indictments, a fire gutted the Fort Lauderdale showroom of Bond Plumbing Supply, the firm whose office manager had blown the whistle on the operation. Fort Lauderdale Fire Captain Stanley Janson said that the blaze was set by arsonists...
...didn't, and I've been disappointed. For someone who's been in politics as long as he has, he should be more articulate." Others were surprised at how ill-prepared Kennedy seemed at many appearances. Said Glenn Kinduell, 27, an industrial-cleanser salesman in Fort Wayne, Ind.: "He seems more mortal...
...Detroit Air Traffic Clerk Betsy McCamman, 29: "It's not what Carter did, it's what he didn't do. He didn't overreact." Then Kennedy dismayed still other backers by attacking deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. To James Schroeder, 33, a hotel bellman in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this was "dirty pool." Said he: "If anything, Kennedy should have attacked the militants. He should have supported the President." Complained Richard Maynard, 30, a high school social studies teacher in Philadelphia: "There was a move for national unity, and Kennedy wasn't in touch with that...
...grandfathers of all conglomerates, Textron under Miller's management, had a highly decentralized operation. Company headquarters in Providence gave broad decision-making powers to the Bell Helicopter division in Fort Worth. Corporate financial control was maintained primarily through monthly reports, and only major capital expenditures were carefully monitored...