Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a Toyota Celica and moved up to a Mercedes-Benz, later a BMW and now a 1986 Porsche 944. Shapiro pays only about $450 a month for the Porsche -- considerably less than the $800 a month he figures a conventional auto loan would cost him. Tom and Dede Spencer of Kirkwood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, decided to lease their 1987 Dodge Caravan for $367.50 a month. They can spend the money they would otherwise use for a car down payment for new carpeting and the delivery-room bills for their new baby...
...lesser-known things in this show -- like the dense and acerbic paintings of Degas's friend Walter Richard Sickert, or Matthew Smith's responses to fauvism, or the work of the vorticists around 1914 (Wyndham Lewis, William Roberts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), or that of individuals like Stanley Spencer, David Bomberg, Jacob Epstein and Paul Nash, and so on through to the post-'60s paintings of men like Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj and Howard Hodgkin -- now strike us as not just a footnote to, but an essential part of, the visual culture of the past 80 years...
...chain-smoking Brooklyn-born political operative who will call signals as the deputy chief of staff. Duberstein handled congressional relations for Reagan in the first term, and alone among Baker's assistants he retains close ties to the President's Old Guard, especially Deaver and longtime Political Adviser Stuart Spencer. Joining Duberstein will be Thomas Griscom, 37, who served as Baker's garrulous press secretary and alter ego on Capitol Hill. Griscom delayed returning to a lucrative public-relations job to assist his former boss during the transition period, and has apparently been persuaded to stay on in a position...
...living on the same hillside behind the Berkeley campus of the University of California. The most widely studied clusters are located in the western Pacific, particularly on the island of Guam, where ALS was once at least 50 times as common as in the continental U.S. Last year Peter Spencer, a neurotoxicologist at New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, offered a solution to the mystery of the Guamanian cases when he traced them to a toxin found in cycad seeds, which the natives used to eat in times of famine. The toxin specifically affects nerve cells, says...
...While Spencer's discovery cannot directly explain the cases of the San Francisco 49ers or the Ohio schoolteachers, it does lend credence to the notion that something toxic in diet or environment can later trigger ALS. Indeed, over the years, a befuddling array of culprits has been suggested. They include infection with poliovirus, exposure to heavy metals, employment in the plastics industry and a history of traumatic injuries...