Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goldsmith not only likes making lots of money, he likes spending lots of money. "I don't understand people like Warren Buffett," he says of the parsimonious Nebraskan financier, "who pride themselves on living in their first house and driving a used Chevy to work, despite being billionaires." Aside from Goldsmith's Paris home and his town houses in New York and London -- all filled with antique furniture, paintings, statues, silk hangings -- he has just acquired a 16,000-acre hideaway on northwestern Mexico's Gulf of California. "It's the most beautiful place I've ever seen," he says...
...firmly fixed in the Constitution: "He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." In a stinging 450-page report certain to trigger heated controversy, a majority of the congressional Iran-contra committees this week will charge that Ronald Reagan failed to fulfill that solemn obligation. Says Warren Rudman, the feisty New Hampshire Senator who was one of three Republicans to join the 18-member majority: "The report deals with the responsibilities of the presidency, and I think it's fair...
...drunken and beat up father tells the older brother he is not his son, a theme of uncertainty reminiscent of earlier Southern writers William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren. In anguish, the older brother orders the younger one not to call him by his name. He feels he has no identity, that he belongs to no one and deserves no name...
...Warren Professor of American History David H. Donald said Brinkley deserved praise for his new appointment as the CUNY graduate history department includes several of the nation's leading American historians. "Being asked to join this faculty is a most prestigious thing," Donald said...
When the Jacksonville city council outlawed topless dancing in places where alcohol is sold, it did not bargain on the enterprise of Warren Colazzo. The owner of Fantasy World, one of the city's 14 topless bars, banned liquor rather than licentiousness. The outcome: a club full of 17-year-olds only too happy to sip Coke and near beer for a jiggle show...