Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expanded entourage finally arrived. Carter, in a raincoat, and Rosalynn, holding two red Georgia camellias, walked proudly and slowly down Main Street greeting the 3,500 friends who showed up to welcome them home. "Coming back to Georgia is a happy experience for me," he said, "and I thank...
...Canada, the boat people can thank private organizations and individuals who responded to the crisis. "Per capita, Canada did as much as or more than other countries because so many people decided it was the right thing to do," says Kirk Bell, executive director of immigration for Ottawa's Federal Ministry of Employment and Immigration...
...that he can thank Johnson. After the production of dozens of planes, the U-2 assembly line was shut down in 1969. Ordinarily the millions of dollars in tools, dies and jigs for crafting the planes would have been scrapped. But Johnson had a premonition. "I hid 'em away in four different places," he recalls. "Put them in Cosmoline [a greasy preservative] just in case we'd ever get a rainy...
...show's most touching number, "Thank Heaven for You", Everett Gibson, a solid tenor whose voice fills the theater with a marvelous operatic resonance, and Cheryl Coston, a petite soprano with a versatility that can conquer both ballads and jazzy scat-singing, perform a coppella love song that showcases the two most distinctive vocalists in a singer's show. Gibson and Coston dominate throughout, invigorating their songs with a range of expression that many of the other more static soloists lack. Although the choreography is both graceful and jazzy, the frozen and unnecessary presense of several non-singing...
...thank you, my mother thanks you, I and my girlfriend thanks you." So wrote a satisfied reader of How to Do Your Own Divorce in California to the book's publisher, Nolo Press. The happily divorced man is one of millions of Americans who have found that a likely place to seek solutions to their legal problems is often the neighborhood bookstore. Self-help manuals are proliferating, usually in paperback, and cover every subject from small-claims court to homosexual rights. Nolo, with 20 titles in print, expects to gross $750,000 this year, up $500,000 from...