Word: kept
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...boats simply targeted some other species or moved to more distant waters. The depleted stocks almost always recovered. But now, experts warn, unprecedented forces--among them, industrial-scale fishing gear and a burgeoning global seafood market--are altering this age-old cycle. The economic and technological barriers that have kept overfishing within bounds appear increasingly shaky, like dikes along a river that floodwaters have undermined. Should these barriers collapse, commercial extinction could escalate into biological catastrophe...
...lineup of high profiles, Liotta has the toughest role and does wonders with it. He gets to play ambiguities. Stallone has to dramatize indecision; he does it by carefully plodding toward Freddy's crisis. He describes the sheriff as "a noble turtle," and during the shoot he kept a small turtle in his pocket. Mangold wanted the star to lose his chiseled look, so Stallone gained 40 lbs. of flab--a condition he often felt obliged to explain. "He'd say, 'Hey, I'm doing a movie, that's why I'm heavy,'" Liotta recalls. "He'd say this...
DIED. ALBERT SCHOEPPER, 83, conductor who kept the Marine Band--the President's Own--in line and on key; in Alexandria, Va. Colonel Schoepper also played the diplomat at White House concerts: he once continued gamely when Winston Churchill burst into song to accompany the band...
...George W. Bush's resume, giving the Lone Star governor a credential that will glisten on a national stage if he chooses to seek the 2000 Republican presidential nomination. The message? When George W. Bush says "No new taxes," he means it. If only his father could have kept such promises...
...Raffray agreed to pay the then-90-year-old Calment $500 per month in return for her apartment after she died. Raffray died last year at the age of 77 after paying Calment more than $184,000 for a place he never lived in. His heirs kept up the payments. A geriatrician called Calment "the Michael Jordan of aging," adding that you or I have about as much chance of living to 122 as of playing in the NBA. Calment herself said there's no real secret. "I took pleasure when I could," she said at her 120 birthday party...