Word: partner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he has done some ice dancing with a partner, Estey said he prefers to skate alone. "There's too much aggravation in pair skating. There's usually a lot of fighting between the two skaters," he said...
...example, is governor of Ilocos Norte province, and Benjamin ("Kokoy") Romualdez, Imelda's brother, who owns the Times Journal, one of the capital's major dailies, is governor of Leyte province and heads the League of Provincial Governors and City Mayors. Roberto Benedicto, a frequent Marcos golfing partner, has acquired three television stations since martial law was imposed (giving him a total of four) and is chief of the Philippine Sugar Commission...
...competitor whose prominence and prestige reflect the mercenary standard of Hollywood. New York-born and Yale-educated, Begelman elbowed his way into entertainment as an agent. Among his early clients was Judy Garland; in 1967 she and her husband Sid Luft brought legal action against Begelman and his then partner Freddie Fields for misdirecting part of Judy's earnings into their own pockets. Judy dropped the suit a year later, but Luft remains bitter. "The real Begelman story goes a long way back before Columbia," he says...
...contrast, Begin's negotiating partner, Anwar Sadat of Egypt, last year faced pressures from religious militants for a law making apostasy a capital crime for Muslims. Egyptian Christians raised such an outcry that Sadat made sure that the bill was buried...
...tennis, the Los Angeles Dodgers' manager Tom Lasorda and the New York Yankees' Billy Martin struck out. It was the first time either of them had tried their hand at the sport-and probably the last. "I need oxygen," gasped Lasorda, 50, whose celebrity tournament partner in Boca Raton, Fla., was Teen Tennis Star Tracy Austin. Martin scrambled madly all over the court, cutting off his partner, Rumanian Touring Pro Virginia Ruzici, until she gently suggested he stay at the net. Judged Umpire Dan Rowan, co-host of the old Laugh-In: "Both Martin and Lasorda exhibit much...