Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billy Collucci is a jazz pianist, playing his music five nights a week. Nobody listens. The busboys applaud--but only to be polite. He plays for himself, by himself...
Greenspan: Some of these deregulation efforts were started during the Ford Administration, but I do applaud the progress Carter has made. My only difficulty is that during the President's first three years in office, the number of pages of regulations in the Federal Register went...
...focus on space gives the U.S.'s beam-weapons effort a Star Wars flavor that critics say is too far out for present technology. Still, experts applaud Brown for recognizing the weapons' potential. In theory at least, lasers could destroy enemy missiles with beams that travel at or near the speed of light: in the time it takes an aircraft flying at twice the speed of sound to move slightly more than an eighth of an inch, a laser travels a mile...
...Applaud all you want," said Johnny Carson, flashing the monologue moue that has become a Tonight show trademark. "I'm stuck for three more years." Stuck? Well, yes, if $5 million a year or so is mucilage. The real sticking point in the latest contract battle between Carson's Carnac the Magnificent and Silverman the Munificent, however, was not money but exposure. Carson demanded less of it than his present 4½ hours a week. NBC President Fred Silverman insisted on more. Eventually they compromised. The Tonight show, as a result, will be cut from 90 minutes...
Many slum dwellers applaud the vigilantes, especially since the majority of victims have been suspected criminals. The police, for their part, attribute the many killings to gangland drug wars. Yet perhaps the most frightening theory is that the police themselves may be moonlighting as "protection teams" hired by fearful merchants to clean up their neighborhoods...