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Butson makes hay of British Prime Minister Margaret I hatcher evaluation of Gorbachev after his visit last year: "I like Mr. Gorbachev We can do business together." Fair enough, but not a basis for worldwide jubilation over Russia's new J.F.K...
...goal in life when I was younger: get out of school, work construction --be a construction guy--pour concrete. I never worried about what I would do, because I always knew I could do something. I put up hay all my life. In school the only thing I thought about was basketball, but I went to class and did my homework. I felt sorry for the players who didn't, and I tried to talk to them, because I knew they were going to have a tough life. And sooner or later it's the same thing on the basketball...
...brilliance is the passing game, his wisdom is treating as assets what the previous coaches in all the bleak years before 1972 considered liabilities, including snowfalls. One of 14 children who farmed the ground near where the stadium stands now, Edwards is a wit who pretends to have hay in his hair. "We come to town with a ten-dollar bill in one pocket and the Ten Commandments in the other," he says. "And we don't break either...
...sate name. It's a name you can't associate with anything bad. I guess," says Howard Hay of Harvard Cleaners in Philadelphia. But while Flay says he thinks the name safeguards the company apiarist all image of inferiority, he say he doesn't think it helps bring in more business because "Harvard doesn't really distinguish fashion care...
Even before the Norman conquest in 1066, Saxon tribes in England cut their silver pennies into two. The halfpenny (pronounced hay-penny) was first minted in 1279. It went on to become a symbol of penuriousness. In Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, Costard insults an acquaintance for his "halfpenny purse of wit." Now, because of inflation, the tiny (approximately ⅝in.) coin costs more to make than its value of 6?. Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the halfpenny will not be recognized as legal tender after this year...