Word: ron
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...Batman summer superhype has caught up with Las Cruces police chief Ron Axtell. Warner Communications demanded that the city stop using the Batman , logo on its ambulance-like BATmobile. The vehicle is used to catch drunk drivers, and its popularized name really stands for the breath alcohol-testing unit...
...fastest riser on record," says Ron Moore, an astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. So fast, in fact, that astronomers are betting on 1990 or perhaps even later this year, instead of 1991, as the beginning of the maximum. And what a maximum it could be. Despite the ferocity of the March flares, Moore warns, "this cycle is still in its early phase. It's got quite a way to go." Solar buffs are speculating it might approach the violence reached by the 1957-58 maximum, which touched off five disruptive geomagnetic superstorms and vivid...
Rose's lawyers want the baseball commissioner, the sport's all-powerful umpire, to disqualify himself for having prejudged the case. At sore issue is an April letter, drafted by Dowd but signed by Giamatti, that commended the "candid, forthright and truthful" cooperation of alleged bookmaker Ron Peters, Rose's principal accuser, who was seeking the lightest sentence to a tax-evasion and drug-trafficking conviction. The judge who received the commissioner's letter was so appalled that he turned the sentencing over to another jurist (Peters got two years) and leveled the loud opinion that by vouching...
...think of a stereotypical right-winger, I don't come up with Ron Granieri," says a friend...
That kind of celebrity has also returned under a slightly different guise during his time at Harvard. In Mather House, Granieri has won a reputation as a some-time buffoon, not immune to beckoning applause. "If it's possible for a conservative Republican to be a kind of flake, Ron is a kind of flake," says Kaufman...