Word: forte
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...TEXAS FAIR & MARKETPLACE Giant pandas? What giant pandas? Four Belgian horses, three longhorns, a roadrunner, a Brahman bull and assorted other critters will be flown in from the Fort Worth Zoo to form a Lone Star menagerie. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel...
...Justice Department's merger review could come at an awkward time for American, which is preparing to defend itself in a major predatory-pricing trial. American is battling a 1999 Justice complaint accusing it of driving smaller rivals out of its Dallas-Fort Worth hub by illegally slashing ticket prices and saturating the market with new fights...
...DIED. R. DAVID ("DAVE") THOMAD, 69, founder of Wendy's International Inc., which has more than 6,000 stores worldwide; in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Named for one of Thomas' daughters, the chain took on McDonald's with square patties ("at Wendy's we don't cut corners"), chocolate frosties and baked potatoes. The genial Thomas was its pitchman in more than 800 television spots. DIED. ALEXANDER PROKHOROV, 85, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in inventing laser technology; in Moscow. Prokhorov's contribution created a whole new realm of science: optical technology. DIED. WANG RUOSHUI...
...Reagan's Pentagon chief, Frank Carlucci, and James Baker, George Bush's Secretary of State and the man who helped George W. win his election struggle in Florida. United Defense has decided to assemble the gun in a factory expressly built for the program near the artillery school at Fort Sill, Okla. The fort is represented in Congress by g.o.p. Senator James Inhofe, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Representative J.C. Watts, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House's fourth-ranking Republican. Both have exhorted the Army to buy the Crusader...
...past few months, it's become nearly impossible to buy Ketaset in New York City's underground drug market. Made by Fort Dodge, an Iowa-based pharmaceutical firm, Ketaset is a brand of ketamine, a compound that blocks certain neuroreceptors, causing hallucinations in high doses and, in lower doses, a fuzzy dissociation--like the warmth of a couple of Jim Beams. Legally, it's used as an anesthetic. Illegally, one snorts ketamine because the fuzziness lasts half an hour and doesn't produce bourbon's four-Advil hangover...