Word: late
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After stints at Yale drama school and Stanford, McGuane realized he had reached a "point of no return" in his literary vocation. "I was in my late 20s," he says. "I had prepared myself for no other career. What was I to do? Start selling lighting fixtures and hope to rise in the corporation?" Instead, he wrote The Sporting Club, an apocalyptic satire of an exclusive Michigan hunt club, which was published in 1969 to rave reviews. Two years later came The Bushwacked Piano, a biting social broadside about a scheme to sell towers stocked with insect-eating bats...
Although most running backs taper off at 30, Okoye will probably endure well beyond that benchmark because of his late start. "Christian hasn't taken the usual hammering through high school and college, and although he's 28, he has the football body of a 22-year-old," says his Azusa track mentor Terry Franson. Now negotiating for a new contract to replace his expiring, $150,000- a-year deal with the Chiefs, Okoye stands to get a handsome raise. But the fans' adulation has not yet gone to his head. Cho-Cho still wears his Azusa cap, emblazoned with...
...Postal Service over the past two years, the odds have not improved that a letter will get from Boston to Miami in less time than the sender could drive it there. Performance on first-class mail delivery was at a five-year low in 1988, and complaints about late mail rose 35% last summer. For the workers, automation, heavier mail loads (especially during the Christmas rush) and outside competition have turned a once cushy job into a form of boot camp in eight-hour shifts...
...Congo, Angola and Benin and had a hand in the overthrow of three governments in the Comoro Islands. But Denard may have finally pushed fortune too far. Involved in the assassination of Comoro President Ahmed Abdallah, Denard and his mercenary minions were running the country until late last week, when French troops called in by the Comoro interim President hastened his departure...
Sayeed, India's first Muslim Home Minister, has vowed to bring peace to his country's only predominantly Muslim state. Late last week the government did so by force, slapping a curfew on all major towns in the Kashmir valley...