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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What was truly devastating was the tape itself, aired on TV last week. There was Biden, finger jabbing the air, haranguing a man who had asked about his law-school record. After boasting that he had a "much higher I.Q. than you do," Biden passionately recited a highly exaggerated list of his academic accomplishments. He said, for example, he had graduated in the "top half" of his law-school class; in fact, he was 76th in a class...
Troubled by the uncertainty, many analysts took the Gap's stock off their list of recommended buys. The company's shares fell by 8 5/8 the next day. Then over the weekend, Chairman Fisher finally announced the firm's projections for third-quarter earnings: 40 cents to 55 cents a share, in contrast to 60 cents last year. It was this news that drove the stock down another 10 1/4 points last Monday. On Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average climbed a record 75.23 points, the Gap managed an anemic 5/8-point rise. It closed on Friday...
...performer were to cross his or her name off a cast list but later on in the grace period decide to take the role and the rule were not in effect, the director might already have called another person to take the role. "It has happened before," Gunn says...
...time Big Ron's Bar and AJ's Tavern were in game seven of the playoffs, my list was long enough to qualify for a Gov. department thesis and I was beginning to wonder what I was doing in this business anyway...
Fewer than half their players on the active roster and on the injured reserve list attended. Two players who have been outspoken against NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw and against the strike--offensive guard Ron Wooten and cornerback Raymond Clayborn--left the meeting quickly without answering reporters' questions...