Word: shining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vacations in Africa, French Polynesia, Australia and London. This week he was scheduled to close on a loft apartment, but last week found him on the phone, pleading with his lawyer to extricate him from the contract. "I even told the shoeshine boy, 'I can't afford a shine today,' " he laments...
...Phoebe Cates, and is a bit of instant folklore in the book industry. Published as a paperback original by Random House's Vintage Contemporaries series, McInerney's romp gave readers a fast look at a young man's entry-level Manhattan. Bright Lights also put a glamorous shine on Vintage's soft-cover format and helped similar ventures at Scribner's (Signature), Penguin (Contemporary American Fiction) and Bantam (New Fiction). Artfully designed and inexpensive, these books have partially answered the question of how to get new writers published...
...Class of '91, there could be another Char Joslin just waiting to shine...
...Tandy fight it out in the IBM-compatible marketplace, Apple (1986 revenues: $2 billion) continues to thrive by going its own way with machines that run on different software. The company's products have long been favored by educators and hobbyists, but now more corporate customers are taking a shine to the newest machines at the core of Apple's line: the Macintosh SE and the Macintosh II. Many executives have decided that Apple's machines are more user friendly than comparable IBM models. Apple's success in the office market is largely the work of Chairman John Sculley...
...ingratiating as he was industrious, North made many friends around the White House, especially among his superiors. William Clark, Allen's successor, took a shine to the intrepid Marine, and his replacement, Robert McFarlane, looked upon Ollie as another son, but one in need of supervision. Only Admiral John Poindexter seemed relatively immune to Ollie's charm, but North still almost always got his way with Poindexter. Among his male colleagues, North could swear like a dirtwater Marine, but when a woman entered the room, he cleaned up his speech. Says one woman at the White House: "With women...