Word: grove
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jennifer Grove...
...projects to suit both him and a large audience, can share the spotlight with two cranky studs. But the season's major flop is Dying Young (a pitiful $32 million), from the former Miss Can't-Miss, Julia Roberts. "They said Julia Roberts could open any film," notes Martin Grove, industry analyst for the Hollywood Reporter, referring to a star's ability to lure sizable audiences on a movie's first weekend. "They said she could open a phone book. Dying Young proved they were wrong...
Proving legal responsibility and collecting damages in such cases are difficult, and Latimer has had no luck. Nor, so far, has Christina Locek, 42, of River Grove, Ill., a onetime professional ice skater and pianist who says her health was destroyed in 1985 when a lawn-care service sprayed her neighbor's yard. Her cat and dog died the same day, she says, and she continues to suffer partial paralysis, substantial vision loss, headaches and blood disorders. Another woman told the Senate subcommittee that she sometimes slept in her car to avoid lawn spraying in her neighborhood...
...quite a spectacle: eager Governors, U.S. Senators and state economic directors in their best blue suits traipsing out to the headquarters of United Air Lines in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Ever since word got around that United plans to build a new $1 billion aircraft-maintenance center somewhere in the U.S., some 90 cities, states and other public entities have been strutting their stuff in hopes of winning the facility. Dozens of schoolchildren from Oklahoma City have written to chief executive Stephen Wolf, beseeching him to provide jobs for their parents. Suitors have sent flowers to UAL executives and bombarded...
While Orlando's entrepreneurs sell instant Edens, Orlando residents are finding that their earthly garden is being turned upside down. The last orange grove on Orange Avenue was knocked down in 1977. A tourist's only glimpse of the crop that once supported Orlando's economy is likely to be the miniature orange trees "that really bear fruit" sold in souvenir shops. In the past 20 years at least four of the city's main thoroughfares have become cluttered with fast-food joints, gift shops, motels, hotels and gas stations that mount a neon assault ($2.99 FOR MICKEY MOUSE...