Word: blow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sunny breed. They pick up their tribulations by the wrong end, and that provokes mirth. But after the audience leaves, the anguish remains. Perelman's boon companion and brother- in-law, Novelist Nathanael West (Miss Lonelyhearts), died young (36) in a car crash. Perelman never fully recovered from the blow, nor did his wife Laura, who descended into alcoholism. Many of his best letters deal obliquely with the disappointments he felt with his family and his work: he did not write a full-length book or earn a big payday in Hollywood. He compensated for periods of depression with solo...
Thus, it is unbelievable that the University could ever lend PBH a bus that was about to burst into flames. When you lend someone your car, it is implicit that when they try to drive it, it will not blow up. But the real stomach-turner hits when one takes a look at how Harvard has handled the PBH affair...
...lousy idea," sniped the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association. "Unwise and unwarranted," said the American Petroleum Institute. What caused Detroit and the oil industry to blow off steam last week were two Government proposals that could help cut down smog. The rules, put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency, would impose new controls on gasoline content and require improved pollution-control equipment on autos. Acknowledging that the proposals are "controversial," EPA Administrator Lee Thomas said oil companies and automakers "are going to have to spend additional money...
More important, software companies feared that games written for business computers would not sell. "The general thinking was that the average player was a 17-year-old geek with pimples who wanted to blow up spaceships," says Chris Crawford, a former game designer at Atari who now writes programs independently for both business and home computers. "Publishers are just beginning to realize there is another market out there...
...correction was another blow to the Times's Washington bureau and Whitney, who was appointed by Frankel. In June, after Whitney had sent a letter to presidential candidates asking for personal documents, plus access to psychiatric records and FBI files, Frankel issued a memo saying the request had gone "too far." A few days later Frankel sent a memo chastising the bureau for "lassitude" in following up Washington Post scoops. Admitted a Times staffer: "Let's face it, we were getting clobbered on the Iran-contra story...