Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours away in cozy Arlington Stadium as the Texas Rangers take batting practice. Along the baseline, hefting a bat like a mace of office, George Walker Bush ambles through his own pregame drill. He chats up players and reporters and makes small talk with fans, using a down-home twang and slang that belie ten years of New England schooling. They seek his autograph as eagerly as they do the players'. Bush scribbles on a baseball, a hat, a scrap of paper. On this warm summer evening, not one sportswriter or spectator asks about his relative with the extra middle...
...nondeeds -- but the details of two extraordinary lives. Despite his claims, Cook never really tried to reach the North Pole. In 1908 he simply set up a camp with two Eskimo boys near the shore of the Arctic Ocean, stayed there for a number of days, then returned home and announced success. Peary tried repeatedly, with all his energy, and in 1909, at the age of 53, nearly made it. But the speeds and distances he claimed to have traveled, Herbert demonstrates, were far beyond the ability of men or dogs. Peary's diary, withheld from historians after his death...
...Government reported that housing starts during June rose 7%, to an annual rate of 1.4 million. Even so, some experts are cautious about predicting a housing boon because the rise was entirely attributable to an increase in multifamily houses and apartment buildings. There was no growth in single-family-home construction, which forms the largest part of the industry...
Deborah Johnson, a senior economist for Prudential-Bache Securities, foresees the possibility of what she dubs a "couch-potato recession." Her scenario: well-off baby boomers, who have already purchased their compact-disc players and microwave ovens and typically have children to provide for, will spend more time at home and do less shopping. According to Prudential-Bache's Yuppie Consumption Index, these consumers cut their spending 2.4% in the period from December through...
...police badges, 29 firearms and 26 license plates. This month the police obtained a search warrant in response to a 40-page affidavit prepared by the Green River Task Force, the group of King County officers assigned to the case. Recovered from Stevens' residence and his parents' home in Spokane were 55 boxes and bags of additional evidence, including 1,800 videotapes...