Word: hooker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pack, similar to an offensive line in football in that its members are the biggest players on the team, there is a loose-head prop, a pair of locks, and a hooker...
...hooker is probably the one that catches the attention of most fans unfamiliar to the spot...
Spurred by the weak dollar, foreign companies have become some of the most aggressive acquisitors. After Campeau took over Allied in 1986, he spun off some of its divisions to other foreign firms. Australia's Hooker Corp. bought Bonwit Teller from Allied, and Britain's Marks & Spencer agreed to buy Brooks Brothers...
...forward pack, Roberts returns along with senior hooker Vaughn Buffalo, who has fully recovered from knee surgery. Junior John Greenbury and beefy Jon Diorio are two other All-New England players returning while Deon Strickland and Mark Sagarin also add size and experience to the front pack...
...tricks of pecuniary titillation. The main characters are all endowed with big bottom lines. Short, grubby Danny Lehman, the dubious hero, parlays his assets into fantasies of opulence, power and sex. Lehman is a loner who outwits the law and organized crime and favors the company of a hooker who reads Dostoyevsky. All things considered, he is more appealing than the run-of-the-mill Sammy Glick. Erdman's knowledge about money laundering and creative financing firmly establishes the novel's authority. An unabashed weakness for shady operators and a hearty sense of the vulgar should ensure his market share...