Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bragged to some of my friends about how I was going to destroy her in 45 minutes or less. I even watched the videotape of the 1973 Bobby Riggs-Billy Jean King match for inspiration. That is, inspiration not to suffer the same humiliation as did Mr. Riggs...
...Herbert Giersch, an economist at the University of Kiel, predicted that more stimulative government policies would push the growth rate to 2% for 1987 as a whole. The outlook may be bleaker for France, which is heavily dependent on such exports as aircraft and telecommunications equipment. Said Economics Professor Jean-Marie Chevalier, of the University of Paris Nord, who predicted a 1.3% growth rate this year for his country: "There is now a mood of melancholy, anxiety and uncertainty about France's economic prospects...
Officials of animal-protection societies tell of pit bulls being given live kittens or small dogs, such as poodles, to tear apart. Often they are fed gunpowder or hot sauce in the mistaken belief that this will increase the animals' pain threshold. Jean Sullivan, director of the Memphis-based Humane Society, charges that some owners have tried to increase their dogs' natural aggressiveness by keeping them tied up with collars of baling wire or running them on treadmills until they are exhausted. The pit bull's jaws -- which can exert as much force...
...unerring eye, because his discovery was to become Marilyn Monroe. In June 1945, Conover, then an Army photographer stationed at the Hal Roach Studio in California, was sent by his commanding officer, Captain Ronald Reagan, to take promotional shots of women doing war work. The allure of Norma Jean Dougherty, 19, attaching propellers to model aircraft at the Radioplane Corp., prompted Conover to request a two-week leave, which he spent touring the Mojave Desert with the young beauty and teaching her some modeling techniques. Conover returned late from his leave and was shipped out to the Philippines. The film...
...crew at the blinking controls. Set in the 24th century, 76 years after the original series, the refitted Enterprise will feature, along with new sets and special effects, a fresh crew, including a blind lieutenant, a superstrong android, a half-human, half-Betazoid female counselor, and a captain named Jean Luc Picard, played by British Actor Patrick Stewart, 46. "He is a bit older and wiser than Kirk," Stewart observes of his character. "But like Kirk, he is strongly independent and something of a legend as an explorer." One of the few returning veterans is Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry. Says...