Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the jackpots: Pennsylvania's $115.5 million drawing in April prompted bettors from Long Beach, Calif.; Long Island, N.Y.; and points between to flock to the Keystone State, where many stood in line for hours to buy tickets. A few years ago, a $5 million lottery prize was front-page news in most of the country; today it barely rates a paragraph on page...
...meanwhile, spread to hundreds of cities in which Time's cable-television subsidiary owns franchises. One of Time's anti-takeover strategies has been to say that the transfer of the local cable licenses required by a Paramount takeover would create crippling delays. Time won some support on that front when the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the attorneys general of 13 states expressed concern to the Federal Communications Commission that a hostile takeover of Time's cable-TV operations might violate laws that give state and local governments the right to approve changes in ownership. But in one instance...
...hadn't been honest with myself or with anyone else. I had listened to well-intentioned but uninformed roommates instead of listening to my own feelings. Because I had been wishy-washy, I had to be twice as hurtful as I might have been had I been up front from the beginning...
Actually, at that point I was the proud possessor of not one but two complete sets of parents. But Mom had dropped me off in front of Holworthy at 8 a.m. and headed straight back to western New York. Sayonara sweetheart, have fun carrying those boxes to the third floor...
...Glenn, may or may not have snored--no one knew, since he was never around the first few weeks. Glenn dubbed him "The Phantom," in part because Mike would not appear in the room until after 2 a.m., in part because Mike could do things like exit through the front door and re-emerge seconds later from his room...