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...Derek Counts 13-4--31; Dave Marshall 2-2--6; Keith Carpenter 1-0--2; Chris Perkins 5-5--15; Dave Murray 4-1--9; Keith Hinderlie 4-0--8; Tommy Hammer 0-0--0; Greg Walker 0-0--0. totals...
...White smoke meant a very large explosion. A bomb that detonated so powerfully and quickly that it sucked the oxygen out of the air, leaving a white plume of smoke." The author also occasionally strains a little too hard to keep pulses racing. Hearts pound in chests "like a hammer against an anvil." Women have a habit of showing up not simply undressed but "completely naked...
...foreign exchanges Friday cannot be brushed off. If the wild week proved anything, it was that in an era when the U.S. is dependent on foreign goods and capital, no exchange is an island. Price breaks overseas can touch off panic in the U.S., which can then hammer prices down further abroad; that, in fact, is roughly what happened Monday and Tuesday...
...Nevertheless, support for the controversial law is strong. Proponents of the bill point to states such as North Dakota and Vermont that have practically no gun restrictions and boast the lowest violent-crime rates in the U.S. Says Marion Hammer, executive director of the Unified Sportsmen of Florida: "People in this state are sick and tired of being victims of crime...
...helped the bank recover from a string of bad real estate loans. But associates complained that Abboud was autocratic and contributed to flagging morale. In 1980 the bank's board ousted him. Abboud soon became president of Occidental, only to resign in 1984 after policy clashes with Chairman Armand Hammer. Since then, Abboud has run his own investment firm near his home in the posh Chicago suburb of Barrington. His reputation for toughness lingers, however, and Abboud seems to revel in it. "People think the A in A. Robert Abboud stands for abrasive," he has said. (Actually, it stands...