Word: portly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other crime news, efforts to combat a fire at the Brattle Street Crate & Barrel furniture store took an unexpected turn Tuesday afternoon when workers discovered some money in a utility entry port...
...10th century situation with a set of feudal economic dominions. One summit conference is not going to solve the problems." Johnson's departure follows a renewed assault on his troops and positions by rival Charles Taylor. Thousands of refugees, desperate to leave the city, have fled to the port area of Monrovia. Looting and gunfire continues as bodies litter the streets and beaches amid rumors of cannibalism...
...PORT ARTHUR, Australia: Australians are trying to come to terms with the enormous shock of Sunday's massacre that left at least 34 dead. Memorial services in Hobart drew hundreds of mourners, and the Prime Minister says the nation has been "shaken to the core." Martin Bryant, the man accused of opening fire on the group of tourists in Tasmania, is sedated and being treated for burns in the same hospital where several of the people he wounded are recovering. The staff there is on edge after anonymous callers threatened the nurses and doctors who are treating him. "There...
...only politician facing a Cuban crisis last week. So was Steve Forbes. The Republican presidential aspirant continued to come under fire from conservative Cuban-American quarters in Congress for the "repugnant activities" of one of his top political boosters, economic consultant Jude Wanniski. In 1994 Wanniski made a friendly port of call to Havana in a private effort to market his famed supply-side capitalist remedies to top Cuban officials. Wanniski, then a Bob Dole booster, received a prompt letter of admonishment from the Senate leader ("I would appreciate being consulted..."). Though Forbes opposes Castro, he has so far stayed...
...American shoe manufacturers left, says protectionism would not have saved others. Says he: "This isn't a shoemaking country. It's a high-tech one. There aren't a lot of Americans interested in sewing shoes together." Stollenwerk has survived by paying his 450 employees in Port Washington, Wisconsin, high wages of $12 to $15 an hour and turning out premium-quality shoes...