Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While du Pont was Governor, his wife startled Delaware's voters and her husband's family by commuting to law school in Philadelphia, juggling classes with her duties as first lady and mother of four. Outwardly, Pete and Elise du Pont seem like opposites -- he relaxed and playful, she rather cool and proper. Their friends contend that deep down, they are very much alike. Both are efficient, highly organized and quietly but fiercely competitive. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1984 with a combative but haughty campaign. (One columnist, in a wicked play on her name, dubbed her "Elite Bouffant...
...part, American Brands (1986 net sales: $8.5 billion) was sued on grounds similar to those in the Palmer case by Verna Stephen, a Pensacola, Fla., resident. Her husband Andrew died in 1984 of pulmonary heart disease and cancer at age 64, after smoking Pall Malls for 54 years. Before the case could get under way, a U.S. district judge ruled on a pretrial motion that American Brands could argue that it is not liable under state consumer laws. On appeal, the Atlanta court upheld that ruling...
...supporters were holed up. In three runs the planes dropped at least ten bombs, returning to strafe the area. Swirls of thick black smoke rose from the largely demolished structure. When she heard of the bombing, the wife of one mutinous officer inside the camp grew hysterical. "My husband is ready to die," she said. "That's how committed they are. They are ready to die for their cause...
...gems would be "charged" with its energy. Joyce Rennolds, who wore a cluster around her neck, explained, "These do for the body what microchips do for the computer." Other satisfied participants had warm memories. Said Jackie Murray, who climbed Harvey Peak in South Dakota with her husband and two children: "I hope that is the tranquillity we feel when we die. I do believe something universally happened this weekend...
...more immediate problem is oversaturation of the market. Like baseball expansion, the proliferation of comics has led to a diffusion of talent. "The quality is getting thinner," admits Silver Friedman, co-founder (with her ex- husband Budd) of the Improvisation club in New York. So far, however, the ranks are not dwindling. "The competition is unbelievable," says Comic Wright. "Every year I think it will level off, but it doesn't." Meantime, happy audiences seem willing to endure wisecracking dwarfs and Indian mystics in hopes that another Wright or Leno will be just beyond the next punch line...