Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While costly security systems once were mainly for the rich, they are now being eagerly sought by the less affluent. Says H. Tim Crow, vice president and secretary of Atlanta-based Rollins Protective Services (fiscal 1983 sales: $28.5 million), a supplier of detection equipment and services: "Yes, we're still protecting the wealthy-athletes, entertainers, top executives, the heirs to fortunes. We've always protected them. But now we are also protecting the middle class, or the man who is retired and lives with his wife on a pension." A survey commissioned earlier this year by Security Distributing...
Replacing Vura will be either sophomore Jim Crocicchia or junior Jim McGeehan, neither of whom has thrown a varsity pass. Whoever runs Coach Jerry Berndt's attack, he'll have plenty of talented hands to throw to Starters Rich Syrek and Karl Hall return at wide receiver Together with Warren Buchler, they brought down 63 receptions last year. There are serious question marks at tight end, however Returning running back Chuck Nolan will play behind an inexperienced line...
...needed help, found a group, Parents Anonymous, that knew how to help her, and made peace with her son. In high school now, he is a straight-A student and a starter on the baseball team. Mary says, "He is always telling me that when he is very rich, he'll build a beautiful house and put me and his father on the second floor with a sauna bath, a fireplace and a Jacuzzi. Now we are a warm, happy family...
...that devour smaller galaxies. The cannibal stands for Europe, devouring its Jewish citizens. Such out-of-the-way images spring naturally from Ozick's prodigious erudition. This novel, like her earlier short stories and novellas (The Pagan Rabbi, Levitation, Bloodshed), is dense with metaphor, often drawn from the rich Jewish resources at her command: the Hebrew Bible, the Midrashim, or Jewish homilies, and the mystic texts of the Kabbalah. At the same time, as The Cannibal Galaxy demonstrates, she navigates the currents of other world cultures with the surehandedness of a true lover of ideas...
...variety of labors that the new adventurers think up for themselves these days is rich and nutty and, in contemplation, forms a splendid fruitcake of the hu man spirit. Mighty aerial voyages are undertaken in planes as fragile as moths, and transatlantic crossings are made in sailboats only marginally longer than their pilots. There are specialists in climbing frozen waterfalls and skiing slopes too steep to stand on, and in exploring underwater, with scuba gear, caves so deep that helium must be mixed with the oxygen that is breathed, to forestall nitrogen narcosis. A couple of canoeists have just lined...