Word: graying
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...GRAY OCTOBER DAY in Le Marche, the region of central Italy where about 90% of the country's shoes are made in nonescript industrial factories that dot the velvety, verdant landscape. The iffy weather and impending rain don't bother Diego Della Valle, 52. As the president and CEO of Tod's S.p.A., he's used to climbing into his silver twin-engine Dolphin helicopter after lunch at Villa Brancadoro?his 17th century hilltop residence in the town of Casette d'Ete, where he lives with his wife Barbara Pistilli and their son Filippo, 8?and zipping over to Ancona...
...what about cases of rape and incest, where there is overwhelming public support for allowing abortion as an option? Here the lawmakers admit that they carved out a little gray area. Hunt notes that the bill forbids doctors from prescribing any drug or doing any procedure on a pregnant woman ?with the specific intent? of ending a pregnancy. It also protects the right of women to use ? a contraceptive measure, drug or chemical, if it is administered prior to the time when a pregnancy could be determined through conventional medical testing...
DIED. OTIS CHANDLER, 78, California beach boy who, during his aggressive 20-year tenure as publisher of the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s and '70s, transformed the paper into one of the country's premier exemplars of daily journalism; in Ojai, Calif. The great-grandson of Harrison Gray Otis, who became publisher and part-owner of the Times in 1882, Chandler--a surfer who loved racing his Porsche--was the last in his family to head the paper...
...Sunday at their modest, gray ranch house in the Denver suburb of Englewood, Tim and Jeanine Pynes gather with four other Christians for an evening of fellowship, food and faith. Jeanine's spicy rigatoni precedes a yogurt-and-wafer confection by Ann Moore, none of the food violating the group's solemn commitment to Weight Watchers. The participants, who have pooled resources for baby sitting, discuss a planned missionary trip and sing along with a CD by the Christian crossover group Sixpence None the Richer. One of the lyrics, presumably written in Jesus' voice, runs, "I'm here...
...MORE COMPLICATED THAN WHEN YOU CAME IN IN 1996? The exponential increase in the volume of communications makes the job hard. There is stuff flooding into my office that I would never see. Anybody in a high-profile position has a gray area where something that may be of vague relevance is sent to you but never brought to your attention, simply because it never occurs to anybody that it is. You can't keep track of everything now. It's just impossible...