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There was just one little catch. The shop was a sting operation code-named Western Sizzler and run by Birmingham police, and the customers were thieves looking to make a quick buck on stolen goods. Johnny was Johnny Samaniego, 34, a squat, bearded undercover narcotics agent on loan from the Tuscaloosa police department. With his gift for gab, Johnny would lure the thieves into talking about their crimes and giving their names and addresses. "Where did you steal it?" Johnny would ask. Eager to brag, many would supply the full details, even showing off the tools they used...
...interest limited to upscale restaurants. Seafood chains are a rapidly growing segment of the industry, according to a 1984 survey by the National Fisheries Institute, and even in chain restaurants that serve meat, fish is gaining favor. A case in point is the Sizzler, with more than 450 restaurants in the inexpensive-to-moderate price category. Says Advertising Director Don Lum: "We've seen a significant increase in fish consumption in the past two years." Their expanded line offers for between $5 and $8 complete main courses such as shrimp, lobster, crab, salmon, New Zealand whitefish, orange roughy, John Dory...
Hotchkin shot a low shot while simultaneously fighting a shoulder challenge from Cornell defender Kevin Brynie, and the sizzler went past O'Gorman...
Despite its foregone conclusion, the convention was a sizzler of a show...
...From New York Governor Mario Cuomo's poignant evocation of the party's melting-pot past to Jesse Jackson's sweaty, moving, 51-minute tour de force to Geraldine Ferraro's winning performance in her unaccustomed role as history maker, the Democrats put on a sizzler of a show. And to end it, even Fritz Mondale, with his vision of opening doors to the future, gave what may have been the best speech of his life, one that he had honed through no fewer than 15 drafts...