Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Merchants in Fort Myers are a little merrier about security this holiday season. Eleven police officers in Santa suits, complete with white beards, candy canes and hidden firearms, are patrolling the town's stores, keeping an eye out for grinches who would steal Christmas goodies. Already one Santa cop has nabbed a thief carrying off more than $1,000 in merchandise...
Although gravely ill, Shuttleworth, 34, has lived to see his case scheduled. It will come to trial next week before U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez in Fort Lauderdale. If the court decides in Shuttleworth's favor, it will be an important victory for AIDS victims, just the second ruling from a U.S. district court that a federal law prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped protects people with AIDS. The first came only two weeks ago, when a judge in California ordered the Atascadero school district to readmit Ryan Thomas, 5, who had contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and been banned...
...arrival of one more refurbished B-52 bomber at Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth would hardly seem an event to create diplomatic turbulence. But when the aircraft linked up with the Strategic Air Command Seventh Bomb Wing last Friday, it became the 131st B-52 to be equipped with nuclear- tipped cruise missiles -- and that sent the U.S. right through the ceiling of the SALT II agreement. The unratified 1979 arms-control treaty allows the U.S. a total of 1,320 strategic nuclear delivery systems. If the number of bombers carrying cruises passes 130, the U.S. is obliged...
...example, Fort Worth's Sid Bass and his brothers bought and sold 9.9% of Texaco's shares for a swift profit of $300 million. Manhattan Financier Saul Steinberg earned $60 million that year by buying 11.1% of Walt Disney Productions and then reselling it to the company at a premium, a practice known as greenmail. Boesky made much of his fortune by guessing -- and sometimes knowing -- where the corporate raiders would strike next. Says an eminent Washington securities lawyer: "The millions and millions that are made out of nonproductive deal making represent the collapse of real morality in our markets...
...circumstances. Kerry Alston, 24, looks like thousands of other city students as he saunters through Manhattan's crowds on his way to a computer class, a bookbag slung jauntily over one shoulder. But when he leaves the refuge of the classroom, Alston returns to the buzzing confusion of the Fort Washington Armory in New York City, an enormous room that sleeps as many as 900 men. Alston's luck went bad after he lost his job as a security guard last July and then had to leave his apartment after a dispute with his roommate. "When I first...