Word: newports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most pleasant surprises of the Crimson pre-season training camp (held earlier this month at Prince George's Academy in Newport, R.I.) was reserve wing Steve Higginson. Reporting in top physical shape, the lightning-quick offensive threat is "looking like dynamite," said Ford. "He obviously worked very, very hard over the summer; there is no comparison with last year." Higginson will alternate with Keller-Sarmiento...
...Labor Department survey of 305 Chicago-area restaurants revealed that 91% were underpaying their workers. Two restaurants in Miami Beach, Newport Pub and Roney Pub, were ordered by a federal judge this summer to pay $250,000 in back wages to more than 900 past and present employees. A part-owner of both restaurants is Walter Kaplan, the vice mayor of Miami Beach...
After several days of intensive instruction (including homework), the campers choose their own computer project. Last week, for example, Peter Elliman, 12, was trying to design a program to analyze taxes for his mother, a Houston real estate agent. Halley Hupp, 13, of Newport Beach, Calif, said, "I want to make a C.S.I. [Computer System Instruction] program for teaching kids like us how to use some graphics and key words." Counselors give the youthful programmers high marks. Says Instructor Mitch Williams, 22, a computer-science graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara: "I'm glad the kids...
What we realized on the short drive from my roommate's house to the hill-top school in Newport, R.I., was that no one would be there. Most everyone was, no doubt, off for Christmas break as we were. Disappointed, and embarassed over our own stupidity, we decided to take a look anyway, having little else to do for the afternoon. Instead of snow, a chilling drizzle had fallen since morning, and we quickly became irritated when bad directions sent us circling back into town toward the seafood restaurants and little olde craft shoppes...
...mind is like a house, a labyrinthine structure with windows overlooking the soul on one side and the world on the other. Often discovering darkened halls in the light of day. Channing loses himself in his own house. With neither firmly entrenched transcendental beliefs nor a classical sensibility, the Newport-born preacher appears to live under a roof at once dilapidated and unfinished...