Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shining success by supply-side standards--the president has all but ignored his campaign promises to balance the budget and slash government spending. The recent period of economic growth has been tempered by the deepest recession since the Great Depression, the panic on Wall Street, the rise of the "twin towers" (the budget and trade deficits) and a trillion dollar jump in the national debt...
...Florida park's 26 million annual visitors live outside the state (in contrast to 50% of Disneyland's 12 million), the company is aggressively building hotels to capture the business of guests who previously lodged outside the park. In January, Disney announced plans for a $375 million twin-hotel complex designed by Architect Michael Graves, a postmodernist who has playfully topped one building with two five-story-tall dolphin sculptures and another with two four-story swans. Eisner, who wants Disney to become known for its architecture, says grandly, "They're going to be important monuments in this country...
Baseball vs. Navy, 12 p.m., Soldiers Field: The batsmen's bats are booming. This is a twin bill and could be double trouble for Navy, in first place in the EIBL. The baseball team will also play Penn in a twin bill tomorrow. Some bat time, same bat place...
...losing continued, as Toledo shut out Harvard, 2-0, in the first end of a doubleheader. But the Crimson came back with a victory in the twin-bill, exploding for a 7-2 victory over the Rockets...
Fortunately, twin brother "Gino," played by Ray Liotta (see accompanying interview), is around to provide protection. Gino is in his final year of medical school, paid for by Nicky's garbage salary. Strong, handsome, intelligent-yet-sensitive Gino beats up or otherwise intimidates any hooligans who seem to pose a threat to Nicky. When Gino becomes a doctor, the brothers plan to buy a house by a lake and live happily ever after...