Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Newark, does not make the best Italian bread in the world. Possibly it is only the best in the New World. Possibly -- and I say this to appease those of you in places like Cincinnati or Phoenix -- possibly it is merely the best in New Jersey. But this isn't a position you would want to argue on Seventh Avenue, where the people hurrying between the shop and their double-parked cars tend to be staunch Giordano's loyalists...
...move. Said Partner Augustus Oliver: "We are currently evaluating it." Translation: a further battle is possible. Allegis stock, meanwhile, closed the week at 86 1/2, up 15 from the previous week. Said Robert Joedicke, an airline analyst for the Shearson Lehman Bros. investment house: "Like a soap opera, this isn't going to be decided tomorrow...
Tammy Bakker said she had advised her husband, "Something isn't right here. Don't do it, Jim." She asserted that Lawyer Norman Roy Grutman, hired by PTL, pledged that members of Falwell's newly constituted PTL board would submit resignation letters in advance. Supposedly Grutman said that "anytime you and Jim want to walk back in, all you have to do is tell the board of directors...
...course, it isn't mere walking, but a highly energetic, intensive form of exercise that many health experts recommend over jogging because of the lower chance of injury. The National Sporting Goods Association reports that exercise walking in all its forms, whether competitive or just for fitness, is now the second most popular outdoor activity in the U.S. (after swimming), up from fifth place in 1985. American Sports Data, a market-research firm in Hartsdale, N.Y., estimates that there are about 25 million serious walkers of all strides, compared with 13 million runners in 1983, the jogging peak. Actresses Cybill...
...Government isn't the solution," Ronald Reagan regularly intoned before coming to Washington. "Government is the problem." The Government, went his litany, was bloated with "waste, fraud and abuse," all of which desperately needed purging. His words proved prophetic, though not precisely in the way he intended: his Administration, from its very beginning, has been riddled from top to bottom with allegations of impropriety and corruption...