Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grim tragedies or soggy domestic confessionals, however much her plots be the stuff of such woeful fiction. What makes this remarkably self-assured first collection so interesting is the tough bitingly funny humor of the narrative voice. the protagonists, with the exception of the child narrator of The Kid's Guide to Divorce," are all young, college-educated. But this is a protective device, as the husband of the protagonist in another story. "To Fill" says "Everything's a joke. You're always flip-flopping words, only listening to the edge of things. It's like you're always, constantly...
...kidding. I played hockey when I was a kid and when I was a freshman the Harvard team wasn't that good, but I used to go to all their games. I was one of only a few hundred fans there," said Wright. "The next year they make the NCAAs and it's crowded all the time, but I've got people in front of me asking. "What's icing?" 'What's off-side...
...billion last year, GM's $4.5 billion.) Of the laid-off workers, 41,000 have been rehired. Iacocca last month had the company give a $500 bonus to all 100,000 employees. The morning he announced that Valentine's Day gift, Peggy Johnson remembers, "he was like a kid at Christmas. He couldn't wait...
...upstart, you can sell: trucks, in Chester, Pa. Undaunted, he sold and sold and sold. During the next nine years, he hustled up the regional sales ranks. Finally, weeks after his marriage in 1956, Iacocca got called back to headquarters as a marketing manager under the chief "whiz kid," Ford Vice President Robert McNamara. Iacocca officially indulged his ^ love of the punchy phrase. Earlier that year he had devised a $56-a-month credit plan for Ford buyers ("$56 for '56"); later he was intent on the Mustang's exceeding the Falcon's all-time one-year auto sales record...
...Looking back now, most cuts were taken by the schools" to fit the new budget constraints, Macero said. "Fire and police were set, one extra kid in class doesn't impinge on public safety while one fireman less affects everybody," he added...