Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swiftness of the final negotiations was surprising, since the U.S. and Canada have engaged in considerable bargaining about the project. More unusual, a relatively small and unknown company beat out the giants of the North American gas industry to win the contract to build and operate the pipeline. The construction cost alone could reach $14 billion. The victor is Northwest Energy Co., a firm based in Salt Lake City, which had sales last year of $626 million, mostly from a pipeline system supplying seven states. Its peppery chairman, John McMillian, a Texas independent oilman, masterminded the struggle. For his bested...
...great Andy and son of ex-Driver Vince Granatelli. Says he: "My father asked me not to go into real racing. This way I can race safely. I'll come out here and race maybe 20, 30 laps. It relaxes me. I'm going to beat the records at all the other Malibu tracks...
Then again, everything about the show feels authentic, including the supporting cast. Robert Walden, as an over-zealous but talented investigative reporter, and Peter Hobbs, as a police-beat hack, avoid most of the acting clichés usually found in Front Page-style entertainments. Nancy Marchand plays the paper's imperious, widowed publisher as a cross between the Washington Post's Katharine Graham and Dorothy Schiff, the former owner of the New York Post. If Marchand and Asner keep up their game of verbal Ping Pong, they could become TV's Hepburn and Tracy...
There are, however, some humorous numbers which do more than amuse. "Indecision" is a fifties satire with the show's best staging and a song that's got, you know, a beat. It is a song about adolescent anxiety that helps connect a preceding piece on children with later numbers about more permanent relationships. "Albatross Ramble" floats from comedy to tragedy and back as it examines the burdens that life dumps in our laps...
Enter Shayan. At 61:21, he beat Herold with his low blast off the inside of the post. Just seven minutes later, after yet another Herold save on a Sock breakaway, Shayan sealed the game's outcome with an easy tap-in on passes from Sock and Ed Trian...