Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This near disaster wasn't supposed to happen. It doesn't add anything to Kerouac, but the film crew probably didn't have time for a second take. There are a lot of scenes like this in Kerouac...
...after its introduction in January 1984. The advanced machine has so far come nowhere near equaling the success of the Apple II, the company's first major product. One reason: Jobs' insistence on building the Macintosh in a self-contained way, which has made it all but impossible to add new components to existing machines to boost their power. Jobs' single-minded attention to the Macintosh and his indifference to other Apple products exacerbated tensions between him and Sculley. Beset by such troubles, Apple watched its stock price steadily tumble from a high of more than $62 a share...
...then, of course, there is the all-time dumbest animal nickname: the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University. They used to be called the Horned Toads, but the TCU Administration decided to add a little bit of class and upped the stakes to "Frogs." They forgot to change the school colors, however, and these would-be killer amphibians still suit up in purple, which--and I'm guessing here--isn't really the color of most horned frogs or even horned toads, at least in these here parts...
...hope that 'the big bad neighbor from the Yard' will have helped in some small way to enhance the community and add something to make it attractive," Bok said...
...Thomas Malthus. The prospect of nuclear holocaust may be terrible, but the mind takes certain perverse psychological comforts from it. It has not happened, for one thing. And if it does happen, it will be over in a flash. AIDS is much slower and smaller, and may not add up ultimately to a world-historical monster. But the bug has ambitions, and is already proceeding with its arithmetic. Meantime, science, which dreamed up the totalitarian nuke, now labors desperately to eradicate its sinister young friend...