Word: starkey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conventionally ordained conclusion is perfunctory and even somewhat implausible. What interests writer John Patrick Shanley, who won an Academy Award last year for Moonstruck, is the infinite and usually inexplicable capacity of ordinary people to turn flaky without warning or change of expression. The prime example here is Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline), a former New York City cop and now a fireman. As Starkey, Kline has the best entrance in recent movie memory: bursting spectacularly out of a burning building, cradling the child he has rescued in his arms, he collapses to the sidewalk and calls...
...country's $28.2 billion foreign debt had been rescheduled at interest rates nearly 40% lower than the banks had originally demanded, saving about $1 billion. Ongpin had also won approval for a novel method of turning some of the remaining interest into badly needed foreign investment. Said Betty Starkey, an analyst at Multinational Strategies, a Manhattan-based economic-consulting firm: "The Philippines has pulled off a coup...
BORN. To Sarah Menikides Starkey, 25, receptionist, and her husband since January, Zak Starkey, 19, pop drummer following in the footsteps of his famous father Ringo Starr: a daughter, their first child; in Ascot, England. Name: Tatia Jayne. Weight: 7 lbs. 2 oz. Ringo, 45, thus becomes the first grandfather Beatle...
Businessman J. Peter Grace first recommended the improved hearing devices to Reagan. The new aids, made by Starkey Labs Inc., the Minneapolis manufacturer of his old aid, are half-inch-long devices called intracanal aids, meaning that they go inside the ear canal. The battery-operated devices are scheduled to go on the market next month at a retail cost of $900 to $1,100. Dr. John William House, the President's ear doctor, prescribed the second aid to balance Reagan's hearing by slightly increasing the volume level in his left ear. Reagan's right ear, House says...
Harvard also pulled a clean sweep in both the one-and three-meter dives, with Shannon Byrd, Kathy Josman and Megan Starkey finishing first, second and third, respectively...