Word: rockport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BORN: Feb. 9, 1944, Brooklyn, N.Y. EDUCATION: Rockport High School, graduated, 1963 FAMILY: Wife, Donna; three children RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Cookie-company owner/executive POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 2617 Sandy Plains Road, Suite C, Marietta...
...placid town of Janesville, Wis. (est. pop. 52,000), never asked for a Ku Klux Klan rally. But the Klan considered the town, perched on the Rock River, ripe for recruits. So there in the middle of Rockport Park stood a massive burlap-wrapped, kerosene-soaked cross surrounded by Klansmen, and even a few Klanswomen, their robes billowing in the soft breeze. The loud twang of country music mixed with the angry chants of protesters jousting with police a few hundred yards away: "Death to the Klan...
...touts its Easy Spirit pumps with spots of women playing basketball in them, says sales of the shoes more than doubled last year. Brown Shoe's Naturalizer division quadrupled sales of its NaturalSport line when it added TownWalker pumps to its collection. Says Leslie Smith, a product manager at Rockport, the trendy Massachusetts shoemaker whose version is called Walking Pump: "Women are no longer ready to compromise their comfort...
...There is no question that further overrides will be necessary," says Rockport treasurer Bill Parsons, who cited the last year's move as a final resort to raise essential public funds. The question, Parsons says, is whether the town's residents will keep voting to approve the overrides...
Meanwhile small municipalities like Rockport and Manchester will struggle with Prop 2 1/2 overrides to come up with money the state cannot afford to give away anymore. And the tax limiting law will not be modified without lengthy and heated debate, says state Rep. Thomas M. Finneran (D-Boston...