Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Czechoslova kia, in Toronto, Olinekova had felt the same childhood alienation: "I was a me somorphic woman growing up in an endomorphic world. That look ? fleshy and round with curves in all the right places ? was a product of genes. You were born with it or you weren't. Today's beauty is heaven sent but earth improved. Women are making themselves stronger and appreciating it in other women. Two years ago, when I'd run down the street in my bikini, it was the men who'd be crashing their cars into telephone poles. Now the women...
...Student Assembly met for the last time in early May, but most of the representatives did not show up. In fact, there weren't enough assembly members present for a quorum, so the body could not even vote on how to dispense of the meager budget it had remaining...
...season and accepted $810,000 from the Phillies, he says, "Ted Turner in Atlanta offered me $1 million a year for four years plus $100,000 a year from the day I retired to the day I died. Figure 30 years: that's $7 million. But the Braves weren't contenders then." Now he gets $1.5 million a year for, as he says, "doing nothing different than I did as a kid, only in a slightly better uniform with a few more people watching." He smiles and says, "Remember when I used to say I wanted...
...small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line. During Wilkinson's inaugural night on the beat, his partner says: "The first six months were murder for me. After that, when I found out the people I thought were my friends weren't really my friends, I felt better...
...summer, grossing $30 million to $50 million," says James, a lifelong movie buff with a philosophy degree from Yale and an M.B.A. from Harvard. "But that matters less than that it won't be the blockbuster they counted on. The expectations of the investment community just weren't in line with the reality of the film." James believes that the high price of Disney stock (15 times its earnings, more than double the ratio of the much faster-growing Warner Communications) had caused potential buyers to wonder if the stock had peaked. "They were ready to hear...