Word: york
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toys, not pets, are the mainstay of the holiday season, and New York's Hammacher-Schlemmer has several playthings for adults like a $49.95 astrological computer. Punch in your birth date, and this marvel of technological wizardry provides you with a personal horoscope and tells you what your personality traits...
When Gauthier came back to Cambridge this fall, he found a changed attitude on the team. "Last year we hated to wear shirts and ties, but this year's freshmen came to our first meet dressed like New York bankers in three piece suits...
Rushing back to New York, Meryl took a leave from acting to care for Cazale full time. During his last few weeks she moved into the hospital; every day she read him the sports pages, comically imitating the overheated delivery of TV announcers and trying to nourish his spirits until the end. He died in March 1978. Afterward, says Streep, "I was emotionally blitzed." She began work on Joe Tynan four months later: "It was a self ish period, a period of healing for me, of trying to incorporate what had happened into my life. I wanted to find...
...Manhattan Bank. The syndicate voted to declare a $500 million loan to Iran in default for failure by Tehran to pay some $4 million in interest charges. The Iranian central bank retorted that it had instructed the Chase to transfer the needed funds from an Iranian account in New York to Chase's London branch where the interest was owed, but that the U.S.'s freezing of its assets had prevented the transfer. Asserted an official bank statement released in London (before Banisadr contradicted it): "There is no intention on the part of the Iranian government...
...through the endoscope and extracted from the mouth of the sedated patient. The general anesthesia required in surgery is not necessary. Patients can eat on the same day and frequently resume their normal routine after only an overnight stay in the hospital. Dr. Jerome Siegel, a gastroenterologist at New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, has used this method on about 150 patients and is sold on it. Says he: "Within 48 hours, one of my patients, a 58-year-old woman, played 18 holes of golf-and shot a better score than usual...