Word: philadelphia
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...sister calls him Stinky, his brother does not believe that Philadelphia is the capital of Belgium. Naturally Spinky Sulks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). At age 81, William Steig can still use the cartoonist's technique to render the wounds of childhood and the consolations of pouting. Spinky receives entreaties from his mother, lectures from his father and apologies from his siblings. Eventually, of course, he comes around, but only on his terms and his schedule. In youth as in humor, timing is everything. Steig has not forgotten that either...
...game's greatest players. The shoulder and knee injuries which he has endured would have stopped most players cold, but he has played with pain for years. He knows he can recover from his surgery and return to the diamond in top shape--and the fans of Philadelphia believe in him. Instead of attacking Schmidt in the off-season, why don't we let him prove himself in the batter's box in April? Bridget Asay...
During this week's baseball meetings in Atlanta, rumor had it that Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt would no longer be playing in the City of Brotherly Love...
Milken never put his big idea or his ambition aside. As a trader for the old-line Philadelphia firm of Drexel Firestone in the mid-'70s, he scorned colleagues who hewed to tradition and "spent from 11 o'clock to 2 o'clock at the racquet club." The dogged Milken soon discovered that junk bonds could provide much needed capital for medium-size companies that were unable, because of their size, to issue investment-grade debt. Other firms, notably Lehman Bros., had already tried minting bonds that were high yield from the outset. But Milken was the first to build...
...School promoted Dunn from her position of associate dean for budget and finance to succeed Elizabeth Reveal, who resigned last January to become Philadelphia's municipal finance director...