Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chairman Edward Telling predicts that middle-class Americans, especially the 60 million Sears credit-card holders, will be attracted by his company's respected and familiar name. Said Telling at last week's annual meeting: "We aren't concentrating at either end of the economic ladder. Our success lies down the middle, as it always...
...threads you find yourself tugging on is bound to lead to the very top of the social order. That is just fine with Director Ritchie, whose best work (Smile, The Bad News Bears) is acutely observant of manners and morals on every rung of the American ladder. Here everything from the way members treat servants at a posh tennis club to direct-mail advertising receives a glancing satiric blow from his camera. Even the car chase in Fletch is witty and believable and something an adult can attend without flinching. As the adolescent revels of summer wear on, that alone...
...example in addition to his national championships. Clark was the favorite last summer to make first team of the U.S. Olympic squad at 114 1bs. in Greco Roman wrestling Although he was upset in the Olympic trails and ended up fourth on the ladder, he had twice pinned the U.S. wrestler who went on to take a silver medal in the Olympics...
...buff's delight. In addition to four glass-walled racquetball courts, it offers a gym, indoor running track, a weight room and marbled showers and whirlpool. Pickens works out daily when he is in Amarillo, and his name is usually at the top of the center's racquetball tournament ladder. His prowess is on sculptured display outside the courts in the form of a life-size bronze statue that portrays a crouching Pickens about to smash an unreturnable backhand...
Once, Rosen pinned a note to the loft saying that unless they built a ladder within 48 hours, he would send carpenters to tear the loft down, Bauer added...