Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to teammates and family, hard work and discipline have led to overwhelming and unexpected success on the water. According to her mother, Ann, Remus has always embodied her grandfather's favorite quotation: "Anything worth doing is worth doing well."
Neville Mullard, 43, lives with his widowed mother Betty in a Hong Kong house called, in honor of their native land, Albion Cottage. The late George Mullard left his wife and son, nicknamed Bunt, half-ownership of Imperial Stitching, a garment-manufacturing firm located in an eight-story building in...
BOOKS . . . KOWLOON TONG: On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People?s Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Paul Theroux?s ?Kowloon Tong? (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) offers Theroux?s imaginative version of...
It was really the other two actors who took the drama to its emotional climax. Gotlieb as Laura communicated primarily through eloquent looks before the arrival of the Gentleman Caller; but opened up with marvelous expressiveness in the tete-a-tete with her former high school "crush." In face, voice...
Enter Santa, dressed as the GDP. Late in the week, with both sides still struggling to close the deal, a bounding U.S. economy closed it for them. The Congressional Budget Office quietly informed budget negotiators that the economic boom would produce an unexpected surge in tax revenues that would shrink...