Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 3. On July 4, tall ships will sail up the Hudson, and fireworks will turn night into day. On July 5, scholars will meet to discuss the idea of liberty, and the New York Philharmonic will play in Central Park. On July 6, the closing ceremony in New Jersey's Giants Stadium will feature more stars than there are in heaven, to use MGM's old motto. Throughout the weekend, rockets will glare, bands will blare, sails will billow, pigeons swoop and spectators whoop; 200 square dancers will hop, 300 tap dancers will bop, Frankie Avalon and Francis Sinatra...
...Waltham, Mass., at Yolanda's, Proprietor Yolanda Cellucci is shooting for a different market. Along with more traditional items, Yolanda offers a slinky jersey number with a peekaboo keyhole shape cut from below breast to just below the navel. For her own daughter's wedding last January, Yolanda ran up a gown of white leather, python skin, fox, mink, Swakara and gold cloth with a complementing jacket of Russian golden sable. Such an outfit might seem a little . . . well, declamatory, but it was certainly of a piece with the proceedings, whose wintry "theme" was Doctor Zhivago. The bride and bridegroom...
...other, the court upheld a ruling that a union representing sheet metal workers in New York and New Jersey must significantly raise its non-white membership by August...
...back in 1982 that Bradley, then a first-term Democratic Senator from New Jersey, first put tax reform on the national agenda. The idea of lowering rates for the many by eliminating breaks for the few was seen as noble but a bit naive in the real world of Washington politics. Well-financed special- interest groups, went the conventional wisdom, would quash any attempt to take away their favorite loopholes. But Bradley kept plugging away in his dogged fashion; he even published a book on the subject (The Fair Tax) that forcefully laid out the case for reform. This week...
...look at it this way," Celtics President Red Auerbach said gently, "Len Bias achieved two of his goals, to be drafted high and by the Celtics." Saying Bias will "always be a member of the Celtics," Auerbach delivered the unused jersey No. 30 to the family. "Bias had a natural ability that would have made him a consummate Celtic . . . The picture of health, the perfect athlete, 6 ft. 8 in. in his stocking feet . . . The best college player in America . . . One of the most happy people you'd ever want to see . . . He could jump through the roof." Like picks...