Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wanda: Outstandingly wide of the mark, Ralph. Actually, the subject is marriage contracts -- prenuptial agreements, if you will. Barnett is head of the matrimonial department at a New York law firm, and she calls the prenuptial agreements legal valentines that can be "loving and protective documents...
They take it again, more intensely. "No glottal stop on the 'I,' please," Barber says, breaking in. "I know it's hard." They give him a wide-open "I," then try the hymn again...
...confirmed that it had talked to EDS "on a wide range of options that did not preclude investment." But GM Chairman Smith, while acknowledging the AT&T talks, denied that he had ever considered unloading his computer subsidiary. "EDS isn't for sale," he told the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press. "We have never had it on the block or anything like that...
...that's when I'm most at ease." D'Amato's surrogate, Kevin Rooney, does the training now, literally by the numbers. "Seven-six- two," he barks from ringside, ordering combinations of punches. An inactive welterweight, symbolically unretired at 30, Rooney has a fighter's mask featuring a wide and prideful nose that once made the short acquaintance of Alexis Arguello. Rooney recalls the day Tyson appeared in the gym at 13. "He looked like a big liar," the trainer says. "He looked...
Last week, in the mild sunlight over the Seine, in the belated blue of a dying November, the work of grooming the "elephant" for its last incarnation drew to an end. Masons were finishing the limestone slabs on its wide steps up from the Quai Anatole France. On the parapet, a crane solicitously set down an allegorical bronze of Oceania by some 19th century pompier -- a colonial damsel with thick lips, melon breasts and a Tahitian war club, flanked by a kangaroo...