Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cold day in New Haven Saturday, but the Harvard women's rugby team was hot enough to defeat Yale...
...hot line has received 500 calls a day, or five times the number expected. A 55-year-old quadriplegic from Houston complained that her life savings of $30,000 disappeared because she had been talked into gambling on risky stock options. Several callers have been referred to mental-health professionals...
...Moines, Babbitt bypasses the Savery Hotel, the venerable political hot spot, and stays instead in the spartan Kirkwood, with its scuffed furniture and worn carpets. No luxury suites here. One night, when Hattie Babbitt settled into bed at the Kirkwood, she asked her husband, "Do I smell mildew?" But the odor was not the hotel linens. She laughed. "It was his T shirt...
Joyce Brown, a 40-year-old former stenographer, has lived for the past year on a Manhattan sidewalk. Crouched over a hot-air vent, she fended off winter sleet. Panhandling, she dined for $7 a day on juice, a quart of milk, a pint of ice cream and a chicken cutlet from the corner delicatessen. She relieved herself in the gutter, huddled beneath a tattered coat. Crazy or not, Brown claims to know what she wants. "Some people are street people," she says. "That's the life they choose to lead...
While sparring with the union, Continental executives have launched an all- out campaign to win back customers. The airline has begun keeping on call at the Newark, Denver and Houston airports "hot spares" -- fueled-up planes with standby crews ready to step in if another jet develops difficulties that prevent its takeoff. The airline is spending $60 million this year on employee training. Customers receive cash rebates of $10 to $50 for filling out "report cards" grading the carrier's performance. Capping these efforts is an advertising blitz featuring full-page confessionals in major publications. "We grew so fast that...