Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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B.A.T immediately slapped down last week's bid. Chairman Patrick Sheehy described the offer as "no more than an ill-conceived attempt at destructive financial engineering," designed to give the raiders a quick payout by stripping the company's assets. London investors questioned the feasibility of Goldsmith's financing, while corporate chieftains feared he might set off a rash of leveraged takeover raids...
...story unfolded, it made for some odd conversations among staffers in the San Francisco bureau, where Nash is currently based. Office manager Olivia Stewart found herself fielding enigmatic tips about solar activity. Many came from Patrick McIntosh, a solar physicist in Boulder. As Nash tells it, "Olivia would say with mock concern that 'Pat McIntosh called again to say the sun was acting kind of strange.' Then she would burst out laughing." Last week, as the story was going to press, the sun graciously cooperated by ejecting a huge arch of gas that some astronomers pronounced the largest explosion they...
...that others might have the right to burn it. Said Don Bracken, the adjutant quartermaster of the Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter in Seattle: "The flag is a symbol of the U.S., and when you destroy that flag, you destroy the principles of our country." Conservative activists such as Patrick McGuigan of the Free Congress Foundation saw the ruling as yet another attack on traditional values. "The Supreme Court has told us schoolchildren may wear printed obscenities on their shirts but may not pray at the start of the school day," he said. "Now it $ tells us the majority...
...people's insurance company). Held aloft beside them were the ubiquitous signs inscribed sheng yuan (support the students) or HUNGER STRIKE -- NO TO DEEP-FRIED DEMOCRACY. Other signs had a distinctly American provenance. I HAVE A DREAM, said one, echoing Martin Luther King Jr. Another amended the words of Patrick Henry: GIVE ME DEMOCRACY OR GIVE ME DEATH...
LOVERBOY. Delivering pizza in Beverly Hills offers all sorts of erotic opportunities -- and comic ones too -- in this cheeky romantic romp. Patrick Dempsey has the charm and director Joan Micklin Silver the knack to bring off a modern farce in the classic style...