Word: richer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poker was the steadiest and most spectated game, as the makeshift card-board table and airline deck were both well worn out by the end of the trip. Regulars included Steve "Rich get richer" Baloff, Dick "Go for the flush" Emerson, Rob "What's Steve King's number" Alevizos, Timmy "Nay, I don't want to play this" Clifford, and indentured slave Jim Keyte...
...Great Britain, though, there was shop-floor cheering at the factories of Rolls-Royce, whose advanced RB.211 engines will power Pan Am's TriStars. To Rolls, Pan Am's initial order means $218.5 million in sales and an even richer psychological reward. Start-up costs for the RB.211 pushed the famous automaker into bankruptcy and its jet-engine operation into nationalization in 1971. Sir Kenneth Keith, 61, chairman of Rolls-Royce Ltd., believes that the future of the RB.211 program has been enhanced by the Pan Am deal. Said he: "It has been a cliffhanger. Six months...
...also strict and harsh. Some two months after his departure, on the night of July 24, 1975, Gregory returned home-with a knife and an ax. He killed his parents and stuffed their bodies into their bedroom closet. Last week Shaddy was a free man. And soon, maybe, a richer man. Gregory and his brother, Scott, will split their parents' estate, which is estimated to be upwards...
...accurately describes both the Russian and the Baryshnikov versions. It is based on an episode in the Cervantes novel in which an innkeeper's daughter, Kitri (danced by Gelsey Kirkland), manages to marry her true love, Basil the Barber (Baryshnikov), in defiance of her father, who has a richer son-in-law in mind. The visionary Don Quixote (Alexander Minz) and his faithful Sancho Panza (Enrique Martinez) are on the periphery of the raucous doings but play no real part...
This week 400 undergraduate men received letters saying that they were now eligible for work study jobs because Harvard's undergraduate program is $250,000 richer. Women may get similar letters in February, but they...