Word: tendered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blossomed into a cosmopolitan city, it has spawned restaurants that serve more than the down-home fare associated with the South. Even so, visitors should first sample the native cuisine. That includes such obvious specialties as crunchy fried chicken with livers and other giblets, fork-tender country-fried steak, braised pork chops, fried catfish and black-eyed peas. To these are added local esoterica like potlikker, a bracing broth that results from cooking pork with greens and is best accented with a dash of Tabasco. Small wonder that to some this is known as soul food...
GRAHAM PARKER: THE MONA LISA'S SISTER (RCA). New tunes as tough and tender as a dime novel. Parker hasn't released an album since 1985, but this one makes up for a lot of lost time...
Scandal was the sea in which Capote swam. Clarke quotes Capote's story, for instance, of his not-very-electric sexual fling with Errol Flynn, and of a tender interlude with John Garfield ("one of the nicest people I've ever known. My mother saw him just once and tried to get him into bed with her"). Capote used such shockers to draw corresponding admissions from subjects he interviewed. Clarke's breezy and sympathetic account inevitably teems with them and is sure to keep tongues wagging busily through the summer...
...advanced age of 28, he has one: Manhattan's Gemini Partners. And, as the newest and perhaps youngest player in the takeover game, he could have more companies in his pocket, soon. Last week Pearlman, acting on behalf of a group of investors, launched his first tender offer, a bid worth $240 million for Arkansas Best Corp. (1987 revenues: $732 million), a firm engaged in trucking as well as furniture and tire manufacturing...
...quite unfair that I, at the tender age of 23, should be forced to pay rent, the phone bill, the food bill, the car payment with insurance, gas, maintainance, my student loan payment, clothes bills, taxes (federal, state, and local), and even my movie money The "financial elitism," as practiced by the clubs represents the horrid specter of Fiscal Responsibility rearing its ugly head, roaring that all those who share the privileges must share equally the financial burden. Why, you know what my problem is? The world capitalist system has conspired to practice "financial elitism" on me, forcing...