Word: winter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles correspondent Jeanne McDowell caught up with Donald Trump in the winter of 1987. It was the weekend of the Preservation Ball in Palm Beach, Fla., and Trump, the subject of this week's Profile section, invited McDowell to fly there with him from New York aboard his recently acquired Boeing 727. Twenty months later McDowell was once again airborne with Trump, this time diving and rising around the Manhattan skyline in Trump's French Puma helicopter. If Trump is not a comfortable interview for those with queasy stomachs, neither is he an easy subject when it comes to probing...
Travelers heading for the sun or the slopes this winter will probably notice a jump in the price of getting away from it all. The culprits this time are not the airlines but the leading U.S. car-rental agencies, which are imposing their first significant price increases in several years. Last week Hertz increased its rates as much as 5%, and Avis said it plans to do likewise within the year. Other rental agencies are expected to follow the industry leaders before long...
...relaxed their original strictures on liquor production, but sugar is still rationed in 67 of the Russian Republic's 86 administrative districts. Other goods that are frequently hard to find: good cheese, coffee, chocolate, fresh fruit and bath towels. "Fruit and vegetables have always been scarce in the Russian winter," said a gray- haired man shopping on Moscow's Kutuzovsky Prospekt. "But it's worse than ever this year...
BOSTON--Students at some of the state's 29 colleges and universities returning from winter break this month are likely to find themselves saddled with an unwelcome gift--a bill...
...teacher and all your students were flunking, you just can't say your students were bad students. If you're a doctor and your patients keep dying, they weren't all terminal."--Harvard men's basketball Coach Peter Roby after Harvard dropped three games on the road over winter break...