Word: ranging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mayflower, whose outdoor sign boasts "Live Poultry, Fresh Killed," may be the most famous place in Boston to purchase live turkeys for Thanksgiving. Yesterday, the shop's front salesroom was packed, telephones rang incessantly and trucks pulled in and out making deliveries...
Schlesinger then sued the brokerage for invasion of privacy in Massachusetts county court and won the case last June (Merrill Lynch is appealing). The judge issued an injunction prohibiting Merrill Lynch from calling Schlesinger, yet barely two months later, a Merrill Lynch broker rang him up. The attorney filed a complaint for contempt of court, and Merrill Lynch was ordered to pay $300. Said a spokesman: "We tried everything to keep Mr. Schlesinger's name off the lists. But we have 12,000 brokers. One of the calls slipped through...
...department stores. While he spun off such acquisitions as Brooks Brothers and Bonwit Teller to pay part of his $11 billion debt, he insisted that his remaining chains could churn out enough cash to make interest payments, finance expansion and yield profits as well. Instead, the cash registers rang slowly as the retailing industry suffered from stagnant consumer spending...
...hours. He stopped residents, pulled a picture of a young woman out of a large manila envelope, and asked if they had seen her around. Eventually he learned her address. On Tuesday morning last week, say police, he waited outside her apartment for nearly four hours. Finally he apparently rang her bell. When she answered the door, he allegedly shot her dead...
...named Bert Cooper, was served up. A Joe Frazier protege, Cooper was billed as one of Foreman's toughest challenges yet. Midway in the first round, the ex-champ caught him with a right to the middle that pirouetted Cooper 90 degrees. The pummeling got worse. When the bell rang for Round 3, Cooper sagely refused to come...