Word: whopper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also helped polish Forbes' announcement speech. But his 18-hour days on the campaign trail are anything but a holiday. At a Burger King in Iowa City recently (Forbes is keen on the French fries), he was approached by a woman holding a baby in one arm and a Whopper in the other, who asked Forbes whether running for President was his hobby, like ballooning was his father's. Forbes grimaced, then recovered and replied graciously, "I assure you, there are better hobbies than this one." --With reporting by Tom Curry/New York
...type of project you can rush,"says Rick Kleber, the superintendent ofconstruction. Indeed, The Link's complicatedplacement and curious specifications madeconstruction a whopper of a challenge. "It's beena very interesting project--very intensemechanically," he says. And stressful. "Anytimeyou work between two fixed points, there's no roomto shift things...
...prepared to tackle a Double Whopper with Cheese and a large French fries at a downtown Houston Burger King last week, Daniel Minturn, a stocky shipping clerk, paused a moment to reflect on the possible consequences: "I do my best off and on to keep to a diet," Minturn sighed. "But everywhere you turn, it's a warning for this and a warning for that. So what's wrong with just now and then going out and enjoying what you want...
...deny the recovery. Oh well. Par for the course. You know, the people swallow those big whopper lies real easy. They catch you and put you through hell on the little half-truths...
...federal jury in New York City made the first award to relatives of a victim of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland -- and it was a whopper. The family of Robert Pagnucco, an assistant general counsel at PepsiCo and one of the 270 people killed in the terrorist bombing, was granted $9.2 million. A previous trial had held Pan Am responsible for its lax security. Although the defunct airline plans to appeal that finding, its insurers could face more million-dollar verdicts in the 200 or so compensation cases brought by the families of other...