Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pretty good shape," said Tony Tsakakis, spokesman for the Dukakis campaign in Milwaukee. He said the latest polls show Dukakis with a slim but significant lead with 43 percent support to Jackson's 35 percent...
...travails at First RepublicBank began last year, when the company, then called RepublicBank, acquired another Dallas firm, InterFirst, which was on the verge of collapse. InterFirst seemed salvageable, but its loan portfolio was in worse shape than RepublicBank assumed. As a result, First RepublicBank last year lost $657 million. Says Paul Horvitz, a professor at the University of Houston: "The merger may turn out to have been the worst business decision ever made." Worried First RepublicBank's depositors have pulled some $2 billion out of their accounts this year. If First Republic were to fail, it could cost the FDIC...
With the strongman's departure possibly looming, some experts are worried about the shape a post-Noriega Panama will take. "Nobody is looking at who will be left in the general's absence," says a Panamanian in the U.S. who wants Noriega to quit. "People say Noriega is a thug, but there is a group in the army that is far worse...
...however, continues on his own way as unerringly as Issey Miyake. This new collection is his 31st, but it abounds with so many notions about shape and fabric that it bursts open like a just discovered treasure chest. The waist rises on a short black leather skirt, but the hem falls irregularly. A raincoat is made of polyester that feels and falls like inked paper. One pantsuit in atomic-orange wool knit looks like a drill uniform for fashion insurrectionists. Another pantsuit in silk clings and flares in the jacket, rides the waist, then blossoms out in the cuffs, looking...
...other major unresolved issue is the future shape of Afghanistan's government. Pakistan, which serves as the exile home of more than 2.5 million Afghan refugees, believes the treaty must at least provide a "mechanism" for a transitional government. Said Noorani: "The refugees in Pakistan are not going to return home as long as the regime in power is the same one that is responsible for the deaths of 1.2 million Afghans." Afghanistan's chief negotiator, Foreign Minister Abdul Wakil, insists the matter is a purely Afghan affair and last week accused Pakistan of seeking "to push the talks into...