Word: seale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parties to the dispute and announced a settlement before it was actually made. Says a former aide to Daley: "He never called people in. He waited until both sides asked him to act. Then he got to work." Daley also had clout and trust. A handshake was sufficient to seal an agreement. Because she is new to the scene, Byrne's handshake is not yet enough. With the help of management personnel, she got some trains rolling, and rode on one herself. A Chicago judge then came to her rescue by issuing a permanent injunction against the strike...
...selling well, though fire departments warn of dangers from liquid fuel and certain electric models. Safer and cheaper by far are the 79? sheets of transparent plastic offered as "indoor storm windows." Used in combination with Mortite and other caulking compounds (some offered in decorator colors), they can effectively seal out drafts around window frames, balcony doors and air-conditioning units. One Chicago store shows shoppers a quick how-to-do-it movie to help them with installation. Insulated window shades, made of a multilayered quilt of polyester and aluminized plastic, are a fancier and costlier option...
...because they breathe, allowing perspiration to evaporate. No one any longer laughs at "snuggies," those sturdy thigh-length undertrousers that Grandma used to wear. Fur has begun to shed its politically uncool image (the American fur industry does not use pelts from endangered species such as leopard and baby seal), because "it's an organic, renewable, nonpolluting resource," as Ernest Graf, president of Ben Kahn Furs, explains. In Alaska's subzero temperatures, residents fend off the cold with Eskimo mukluks, boots made from sealskin and caribou, and fur parkas. And down is up everywhere. At many a party...
...Gilbert had earned the credits at, of all unlikely places, Mercer County Community College in Trenton, N.J. Gilbert, a Californian, had never gone to far-off Mercer, but Goldstein, who is from Brooklyn, knew his way around the place. Somehow he got a blank transcript and a fake school seal, counterfeited the record and sent the envelope special delivery to Woolley. Before it got there, agents intercepted the packet...
...Crimson had to commit an intentional foul, but Ram Tony Foust hit two clutch free throws with seven seconds left to seal the victory...