Word: yes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing this while lolling around a pool in the Bahamas. Yes, I know you think I've got a cushy job. But that's nothing compared with Remar Sutton's. You know -- the fat, bald 45-year-old guy who decided to chuck it all, move to an island and dedicate a year of his life to becoming a hunk. He's been chronicling his progress in a series of wry letters appearing in scores of newspapers, but maybe you haven't been reading them. My friends find his quest both repellent (classic male vanity) and intriguing (classic male fantasy...
...home?) "Let's have dinner," said Remar when we spoke on the phone. "But how about a bike ride first?" I blanched but dutifully headed over to his modest three- bedroom house. Initial impression: Georgia gentleman, soft-spoken, slight drawl, impeccable manners -- he lowered the bike seat for me. Yes, yes, about the body. Well, I have to say I was impressed. In his "before" pictures he resembled a bloated puffer fish. At 6 ft. 1 in., he tipped the scale at 201 lbs., a lot of it jelly around his 43-in. belly. And now, after walk-jogging...
...companies: "The telephone network of the next generation will be capable of doing almost anything the public wants. The only question: Is the public ready?" If the speed with which smart telephones are appearing in homes and offices is any indication, the answer to that question is a resounding yes...
...already issued in other forums. Again and again he repeated his standard defenses: he knew nothing about the diversion of Iranian arms-sales profits to the contras, and not much more about the millions his Government had been raising from foreign sources and private American donors for the contras. Yes, he had met with some of the donors in the White House and thanked them for their efforts, said Reagan, but he had no idea they had been buying guns. What, then? "Spot ads on television" advocating resumption of open, fully legal aid by Congress to the Nicaraguan rebels...
...yes," one said. "As much as anything, this is to say thanks to them. It's not often you get a 28-5 team...