Word: lyle
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...weather report is not encouraging. Says National Weather Service Meteorologist Lyle Alexander: "We're not looking forward to a great deal of shower activity." The spring wheat crop in the northern Great Plains could be salvaged if rains come in the next week or two, but a large high-pressure ridge makes that unlikely. Crops are surviving now on moisture stored in the soil. "There's about two minutes left in the game," says County Agent Carl Wilbourn of Leflore County, Miss. "But there's still a chance...
Before the recent Masters tournament, a streaky golfer named Raymond Floyd, who was in a bit of a slump, predicted that the Scot Sandy Lyle would win. Lyle was hot, and it was Floyd's experience that even the cold shots of a warm player bounce out of the creeks and sit up in the rough. Needing a birdie on the final hole, Lyle drove into a fairway bunker, fell into an ideal lie, struck a perfect shot...
Maybe because Winfield portrayed George as a bumbling court jester. Winfield made George look stupid. And no one in New York can make George look stupid. Just ask Sparky Lyle, Yogi Berra, Bob Lemon, Billy Martin (at least four times), the New York Mets...
...LYLE QUICK, FARMER; CIRCLE, MONT...
People like Lyle Gramley, a former Federal Reserve governor who is now chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association, praised the Fed chairman for his decisive actions. But critics like Paul Craig Roberts of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies charge that Greenspan also helped cause last week's market disaster. They note that back on Sept. 4, Greenspan's first important move as Fed chief was to push successfully for a hike in the bellwether discount rate, the interest that the Fed charges on funds lent to financial institutions, from...