Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever the outcome of Bendix's pursuit of Martin Marietta, Agee has already received a warmer reception than he did when he made a similar move at RCA beginning late in 1981. Last March the company responded by issuing a statement charging that Agee had "not demonstrated the ability to manage his own affairs, let alone someone else's." That was a stinging reference to his much publicized involvement with Mary Cunningham, a onetime Bendix vice president who became Agee's wife last June. Bendix still owns 7.2% of RCA's stock, and company officials said...
...have cautioned that if the Arctic Ocean is not replenished by fresh water, it will get salt ier, its freezing point will drop, and the icecap will begin to melt, possibly starting a global warming trend. Other scientists fear that just the opposite may occur: as the flow of warmer fresh water is reduced, the polar ice may expand. In any case, British Climatologist Michael Kelly of the University of East Anglia sees an ironic consequence: changes in polar winds and currents might reduce rainfall in the very regions to benefit from the river...
...made varsity her junior year, only to become a "bench warmer in a real way." That season, Williams said she herself played much better but that the team, plagued by size problems and absenteeism, never got on track...
...states that he is unaware that some tenants perceive that rent board members generally accord him a warmer reception that other, less experienced attorneys and most tenants. But he offers a possible explanation. "When I'm appearing before the board. I try to be courteous, which by the way is not a common virtue [among the parties] in there. A lot of people well at them [members of the rent board...
That is why she needs a governess. As it develops, Miss Madrigal is an ex-convict, but she is an owl of wisdom. No one fully glimpses her past until a warmer-than-drawing-room-temperature confrontation in Act III with the judge (I.M. Hobson) who convicted her. Miss Madrigal, it develops, tended a garden during her 15-year sentence for murder. Under her wise ministrations the lime-based waste patch of the play's title also promises to flourish, along with the love-parched inhabitants of the manor house...