Word: twinning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chief of a slick, sophisticated monthly magazine called Intro ("The Single Source for Single People"), inserted the ad for herself in the March issue. It pulled 50 replies, including a letter from a divorced Chicago entrepreneur who was last seen flying warm, gentle, sensuous Suzanne in his own twin-engine Piper Navajo to Mackinac Island for the weekend...
There are a handful of true Independents in the race, and one or two are running serious campaigns. John St. George, a lifelong Cambridge resident, is an ideological twin to David Sullivan on many issues, but rejects the CCA for its "elitism." He might turn in a showing good enough to let him run more credibly in 1983. And Alvin Thompson's vote will be an interesting test of the thesis that the fortunes of a Black candidate depend on a CCA endorsement. Thompson says the CCA's refusal to back him could help him in some quarters. Most observers...
...naturalized British subject, Cummings lives with his Swiss wife Irma in Monte Carlo (twin daughters, 19, are U.S. undergraduates) and their life is not ostentatious. Unremarkable, too, Cummings claims, is his business: "Like any other trade," he says. "We don't sell anything without official British or American export licenses. I am not a gun runner." Cummings regrets the U.S. ban on arms sales to Iran ("lost business...
...customers say they feel better, walk better, talk better," reports Sally Baker, who owns Chicago's Futon Studio. Boston's Shinera Futon Mattress Inc. sells 75,000 units yearly at about $95 for one of twin size covered in a standard fabric. To emphasize the comfort dimension, some new futons come with a core of foam rubber, which seems to disturb at least a few futon purists. Not to worry, soothes Emily Kossowsky of Boston's New Moon Futon Co. Says she: "We stress that the foam is surrounded by cotton...
...squabble between Regan and Volcker is merely symptomatic of the disagreements that have been simmering for months among Reagan's economic advisers. From the beginning, critics of the Administration have complained that Reaganomics is riddled with contradictions. They predicted that the President's twin offensives, stimulating the economy by slashing taxes and braking inflation through tight money, would result in continued high interest rates and sluggish growth. The supply-siders and monetarists in the Administration kept an uneasy peace as the White House marshaled its forces to push Reagan's economic program through Congress last summer...