Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Story is far from alone. Robert Nieman, 40, is a former world champion in pentathlon, the sport that combines running, swimming, shooting, fencing and horseback riding. Jobless while training, he relies on "the fact that my wife has a very good job." Adds Nieman: "McDonald's gave us some free hamburgers. That's big time in pentathlon...
Because there is no specific treatment for cocaine babies, therapists must work with the mothers. Parenting programs are teaching women how to handle the babies' long bouts of inconsolable crying and unresponsiveness. But such programs are usually designed for motivated women with some financial resources. Says Dr. Robert Cefalo, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine: "We should be reaching these women before they conceive...
...seeking fortunes in the ruins of the savings and loan industry's insolvent institutions. Since 1984 investors have bought 260 failed S and Ls, most of them in the West and Southwest, where thousands of loans to the depressed real estate and oil industries have gone bad. Last week Robert Bass, 40, one of Fort Worth's billionaire Bass brothers and an accomplished takeover artist in his own right, joined the trend. He led a group that agreed to put up $550 million in capital to take over the financially comatose American Savings and Loan Association (assets: $30.8 billion...
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES. The biggest question swirling around Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Dan Quayle is not his service in the National Guard or his legislative record, it is which show-biz celebrity he most resembles. The blond hair and glamorous mien initially got him cast as Robert Redford. More discerning observers have found his bland good looks reminiscent of Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak. Actually, Quayle doesn't have even Sajak's low-watt charisma. Despite his reputation as a "telegenic" candidate, Quayle looks better from a distance; as the camera closes in, the uncertain eyes and thin, twangy voice...
Does Dan Quayle look more like Robert Redford or Pat Sajak? Just one of the burning questions in a made-for-TV campaign...