`He’s getting some needed rest and responding very well to that.’ — Dr. Robert Shaw reporting on Monday that the youngest of the McCaughey septuplets had been put back on a ventilator in what Shaw termed was a “very typical” precaution.
PRESIDENT CLINTON, REJECTING ANY ATTEMPT BY SADDAM HUSSEIN TO PUT HIS PALACES OFF-LIMITS TO WEAPONS INSPECTORS: `There are 78 such palaces in Iraq. . . . Some encompass more land than Washington, D.C.’
`A real doomsday.’
January for Chicago hotels, according to Arnold Karr, retiring executive director of the Hotel-Motel Association of Illinois.
`What we see today is the rebirth of a community.’
Mayor Richard Daley, at the opening Monday of a new 10-screen movie complex in the Lawndale community.
`You’ve got to look at those bananas as media . . . edible media.’
Don Rutz, senior partner at ad agency Bozell Worldwide in Chicago, on Dole Food’s plastering stickers on 200 million bananas to hawk the new 20th Century-Fox animated movie “Anastasia.”
`Tollway shutdown? No way.’
Headline on the Tribune’s lead editorial, calling a Dec. 15 court-ordered shutdown “unthinkable.” The Illinois Supreme Court, acting on its own motion, on Tuesday stayed the lower court’s deadline until further notice.
`The economists have their theories, but talk to any woman, from a janitor to a lawyer, and she’ll tell you, “I’m not paid equally because I’m a woman.” ‘
Karen Nussbaum, director of the Working Women’s Department of the AFL-CIO.
`It’s a building with great history.’
The Chrysler Building, as described by Jerry Speyer, president of a real estate firm that bought the 67-year-old New York City landmark for $200 million and will invest $100 million renovating it.
`The mayor proposes to renege on his signed word for the second time.’
Steve Whitney, president of Friends of Meigs Field, blasting Mayor Richard Daley for allegedly trying to break his “promise to seek a lease extension to keep the airport open until the year 2009.”
`Wetlands were called swamp and waste.’
Miles Schroeder, a Wisconsin cranberry bog operator, remembering how it was before he had to defend the use of his own land.
`The mayor’s views on the need for racial reconciliation are clear.’
Jacquelyn Heard, Mayor Daley’s press secretary, confirming that the mayor met with Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam.
`I don’t plan on playing another game for the Chicago Bulls.’
Scottie Pippen, emphasizing that he is serious about his trade demand because, he says, the organization does not respect him.
