Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reichardt '01 who said he plans to row crew, said the location does not bother him since Apley is closer to the river than the other first-year dorms...
...formerly unassailable icons of wholesomeness, are turning nasty. First a bunch of them filed a complaint against Disney about royalties. Then one of the leaders of that group, DARLENE GILLESPIE, who was so popular as a Mouseketeer that she got to sit next to ANNETTE FUNICELLO in the front row of the photo, was sentenced to three years probation for a ham-fisted department-store theft. Most ignominious of all, BILLIE JEAN MATAY (inset) tried to sue Disney over a theft she and her family endured in a Disneyland parking lot. Matay also claimed that her grandchildren suffered emotional trauma...
...provide the community's elderly with 300 subsidized apartments in the Allen Senior Citizens Housing Complex, along with meals and recreational activities. It has transformed abandoned city-owned lots and state mortgage subsidies into 50 affordable suburban-style two-family homes. Down the street from the church is a row of storefront offices offering everything from Medicaid-funded health care for the homebound to city-sponsored psychosocial services for the mentally ill. Flake, who this month announced that he is leaving Congress to devote himself full-time to his church job, says Allen A.M.E. has "taken an urban community that...
Elderly residents are sometimes the target of home-repair scams. "These people are cash poor but real estate rich," says Frederick Arriaga, a lawyer with Legal Aid in New York. Their houses, however, may be old and in need of repair. One three-story row house in Brooklyn, N.Y., was bought for $25,000 in 1968 by Warren Singleton, a safety officer at a public school, and his wife Minnie, a health-care assistant. They hoped it would yield enough rental income to support their retirement. After bad tenants just about wrecked the two top floors, Minnie responded...
Scientists note that something funny seems to be going on. Until recently, El Ninos came more or less periodically every two to seven years. But in the early 1990s several El Ninos appeared in a row, one right after another. Now, after dying down in 1995 and '96, El Nino is back. What is going on? scientists wonder. Are frequent El Ninos a signal of global warming caused by human tampering with the atmosphere? Or do they arise from random fluctuations in the natural cycle? There are as yet no good answers to these questions. Observes Michael Glantz...