Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a month, meanwhile, Revlon, a star of the cosmetics industry, has been fighting off the advances of Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based retail chain whose stores are mostly in the Southeast. Pantry Pride initially offered $47.50 a share and eventually $53, but Revlon Chairman Michel Bergerac landed a $56-a-share bid, for a total of $1.7 billion, from Forstmann Little, a New York investment firm...
...recall ("For ages and ages," one mother says), the children of this Boston suburb have used the expanse of vacant land as their exclusive preserve, a wild place, slightly apart. It is all-purpose terrain, perfect for many kinds of serendipity, a place where kids can build a secret fort, practice daredevil bike riding over hillocks called the Camel Humps, share the painful silences of adolescent romance or even read a book alone...
Colin Fowles, 32, was once known as the fastest man in the North American Soccer League. He was a star player on the Fort Lauderdale Strikers from the team's founding in 1977 until its dissolution two years ago. Fowles kept in shape by playing in amateur leagues, as he was doing one night two weeks ago during a pickup game in Dade County's Bunche Park, outside Miami. As half time neared in the scoreless match, a noisy squabble several hundred feet from the game erupted in gunfire. The gunmen charged onto the playing field, firing wildly...
...reasons are simpler for people like Chandler Robinson of Fort Worth, a retired engineer, who with Wife Julie forsook his lifelong Episcopal affiliation to join a conservative Baptist church. Says he: "The more we found ourselves maturing in Christianity the more disappointed we became with the spiritual food we were receiving. We were looking for someone to teach us out of the Bible." The Rev. W.A. Criswell of Dallas, 76, the leonine patriarch of the Southern Baptists' insurgent Fundamentalist wing and pastor of their largest congregation, charges that liberal theology "empties the churches. Wherever liberalism places its leprous hand, there...
...eleven months, Allen Friedman has been in a Fort Worth federal prison, serving a three-year sentence for embezzling $165,000 as a nonworking "ghost employee" of Teamsters Union Local 507 in Cleveland, and nursing a powerful grievance. He was only "the fall guy," Friedman protested. The real culprit, he said, was Local 507's secretary-treasurer, Jackie Presser, who happens to be Friedman's nephew as well as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the nation's largest labor union, with 2 million members...