Word: caller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Crimson's defensive line, which helped hold opponents without a TD for the first 123 minutes of the season before succumbing to the quick-strike Crusader attack, has also been decimated by injuries. Cornell signal-caller Chris Cochrane will be relievedto see injured starting linemen John Brzezinskiand Barry Littman roaming the sidelines today...
...Friday prices were up an average of 18 cents per gal. Said a wholesaler: "Since this Kuwait thing, the price has been going up two, three, four times a day." No wonder Judy Bauer, a Chicago gas-station owner, lost track. Asked what she was charging, Bauer told a caller, "Let me go out in front and look. It keeps jumping so much I can't even keep up with...
...morning this month, Dr. Michael Buenaflor, a family practitioner in Northampton, Pa., took a call from a patient who wanted a prescription. And not just any prescription. The caller insisted on Nicorette, a drug intended to help people stop smoking. How did he find out about it? From an advertisement. When Buenaflor suggested that the drug might not be appropriate for prolonged use, since the patient had a heart condition and an ulcer, the man hung up and took his "business" elsewhere. Concludes Buenaflor: "The pressure to use these drugs is incredible...
...grads named Ray and Tom Magliozzi, who own an auto-repair shop and drive U.S. models -- have turned America's love-hate relationship with the automobile into a stand-up routine. "Do you know why they call the Volvo the poor man's Mercedes?" Ray once asked a perplexed caller. "Because the repair bills will keep you too poor to buy a Mercedes...
Dave is in bed with a hangover, so his sister Martha (Kelly Matthews), a prim and proper school teacher greets the caller. She gradually becomes enchanted by his crudely poetic speech and endearing vulnerability. The rest of the play centers around the blossoming affection between Martha and Megs and the disapproval of the selfish Dave...