Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rationalize. White-collar workers are harried by competition, given new power by computers, tempted by electronic flows of cash, and possessed of a strong appetite for status symbols. Result: what began as the decade of the entrepreneur is fast becoming the age of the pinstriped outlaw, his prodigal twin. The white-collar crime wave is already spurring an antibusiness backlash, which could lead to a fresh dose of the regulations from which many industries have only recently won freedom. Says Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: "I think the pressures on honest men have...
...reportedly can be easily distracted by canny opponents who bring up the topic of Wal-Mart. Another favorite pastime is quail hunting; Walton often takes his two pointer dogs along with him on his business trips in case any opportunities arise. His only obvious material luxury is a twin- engine Cessna, which he frequently pilots on his constant travels from store to store...
...example, the Minnesota Twins are wearing pinstripes in the Metrodome for the first time ever. At least, the Twins management had gotten rid of the confusing "T.C." lettering on the cap. Who outside of Minnesota thinks of Minneapolis and St. Paul as the Twin Cities...
Shapiro, who has Canadian and U.S. dualcitizenship, attended McGill College and aftergraduating in 1956 ran a Chinese restaurant withhis twin brother Bernard, who later received adegree from Harvard's Graduate School ofEducation...
...Kinison, another exponent of the new school of "maniacal comedy," could be Goldthwait's evil twin. Like Goldthwait, Kinison depends on high decibels for laughs; his routines build into angry punch lines delivered as piercing screams. But where Goldthwait is a demented child, Kinison, who drapes his pudgy frame in the seedy overcoat of a Times Square flasher, is a depraved adult, fuming over the indignities visited on him in the Reaganite, feminist '80s. A former Pentecostal minister who grew up in Peoria, Ill., Kinison, 33, specializes in foulmouthed tirades on sex and religion. Several of his lines...