Word: lindenhurst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bernice Garelick, 60, had felt sure that her husband Elias, a dentist, could retire in a few years and spend more time with her. But the crash shook her confidence. The Lindenhurst, N.Y., couple watched helplessly last week as their $300,000 portfolio of stocks sank in value by 20%. Said Bernice: "We have been investing in the market for 22 years. Now this happens, and it threatens what you have worked for over a lifetime...
...cholesterol, Carnation now offers Heaven ice-cream snack bars. Among the four flavors is caramel nut, which consists of vanilla ice cream coated with chocolate, caramel and peanuts. Price: $2.99 for a box of six. Even more deadly combinations come from Steve's Homemade Outrageous Ice Cream Things of Lindenhurst, N.Y. One kind of Thing consists of a vanilla ice-cream bar containing pieces of Heath toffee candy and dipped in dark chocolate. A single bar sells for about...
...solution, however, need not await or depend on the crumbling of the public school system. Some towns are evolving their own compromises. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., after a fierce conservative protest against an eleventh- grade sex-ed program, the school decided to offer three different courses. About 60% of the students attend the liberal "Family Life" course; 25% take the conservative option, "Sexuality, Commitment and Family"; and 15%, including those who make no choice at all, end up in a health course without...
While the medical school staff tried frantically to locate the 200 students living off campus, John Doyle of Lindenhurst, N.J., heard banging in the back of the house he shared with four roommates between the two campuses. Grenadian soldiers were battering the kitchen door with gun butts. The students fled to a bathroom, then feared that if they surprised the intruders by being there, they might be shot. Doyle took off his U.S.A.-emblazoned T shirt, walked into the kitchen and found himself facing 30 soldiers carrying AK-47 rifles and dressed in battle fatigues. The soldiers set up portable...
...long time, Brooklyn-born Pat Benatar thought she was going to be an opera singer. Her mother had been in the chorus at the New York City Opera, and their home resounded with classical music. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., little Patty started singing in the fourth grade, and by the age of twelve, it was obvious that she not only liked to sing, she really could sing. There was only one problem: she wanted to sing rock 'n' roll...