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...estate developer William Zeckendorf Jr. He was 36 in 1965 when his father, the brash and bold William Zeckendorf Sr., lost his fortune, which in the early 1960s might have been worth as much as $500 million. The son has been relatively cautious, but he is nevertheless feeling the pinch. His Zeckendorf Towers in Manhattan lost its largest commercial tenant, Integrated Resources, when the investment syndicator filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Still, because most of his debts are corporate and not personal, Zeckendorf stands to lose a relatively modest $7 million...
Even grandparents who have saved for retirement are feeling the pinch. Ollie Duggan adopted her grandchildren so she could draw further on her dead husband's Social Security to defray the costs of child care. "I'm the mother, the grandmother, the granddaddy, the daddy. I'm it all," she says. Peggy Plante, 49, understands that frustration well. Plante quit her job in a Braintree, Mass., real estate office in 1988 to care for a sickly infant granddaughter born to two teenage, drug-abusing parents. "We give up everything," Plante says, "and nobody looks out after...
...Brunansky led off the inning with a double, just the fourth hit off Chicago starter Melido Perez. Jeff Stone ran or Brunansky and Bobby Thigpen relieved Perez. Pena sacrificed Stone to third and Danny Heep (hitting .174) pinch hit for Luis Rivera and hit a sacrifice fly to score Stone...
...voting, as in dining halls, sometimes you just have to pinch your nose and swallow hard...
...heavy equipment, including hundreds of tanks and helicopters, will be delivered by sea -- the biggest bottleneck. The Navy has only eight SL-7 fast-logistics ships specifically designed for such work, and two have already broken down at sea; one is being towed across the Atlantic. In a pinch like this, the Navy is supposed to be able to reactivate its mothballed fleet of transport vessels. It has ordered up 41 of them, but so far only 25 have got under way. The Navy last week was chartering 15 American and foreign cargo ships to pick up the slack...