Word: illing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in Nashville, Ill., Blackmun spent most of his boyhood in St. Paul, Minn., where his father was a fruit wholesaler, grocer and insurance salesman who had aspired to be a lawyer...
...four days of testimony, North had accumulated a foot-high pile of telegrams of support (GOD BLESS YOU, GOOD LUCK AGAINST THOSE ILL-BRED HYENAS). Dozens of floral bouquets were delivered to the Norths on Capitol Hill...
...start a fund to pay for North's security system. In Washington, the epicenter of the Ollie phenomenon, the offices of Congressmen on the committee were besieged with letters and telegrams running 20 to 1 in favor of North. "Keep your chin up," said one; "Good luck against those ill-bred hyenas," said another. North has personally received some 15,000 telegrams of encouragement. All the while, Ollie-entrepreneurs were trying to capitalize on the fascination. At a Young Republicans' convention in Seattle, Joel Shelton sold out his 20 $4 Oliver North buttons (LT. COL. OLIVER NORTH -- ANAMERICAN HERO -- DUTY...
Next week Plummer Hamilton, 40, a computer consultant from New Rochelle, N.Y., is scheduled to go on trial in Cook County (Ill.) circuit court on disorderly conduct charges for allegedly using profane language to stir up passengers aboard a delayed Chicago-to-Newark flight on Continental. At the time he spoke up, passengers had spent an hour aboard the waiting plane, which suffered from faulty air conditioning. After four police officers hauled Hamilton off the plane in handcuffs, some 45 fellow passengers signed a petition calling the airline's action "unjust, outrageous and barbaric...
Network confidence in the venerable firm has been shaken by recent changes in the way Nielsen gathers its information. Traditionally, the Northbrook, Ill.-based company has used two sampling methods. In one survey, electronic meters wired to television sets in 1,700 homes record which channels are tuned in and when the set is on. Meanwhile, viewers in 2,600 other homes fill out diaries on who watches various programs. Advertisers and broadcasters have long recognized failings in this system. The meters, for example, could not tell when a program played to an empty room, and diaries were difficult...