Word: catching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faedo's bakery in West Tampa, a gaggle of old-timers, organized as the West Tampa Political Group, meet every morning at 8:30, as they have for nearly 60 years, to discuss local politics and catch up on the gossip. Many of the group's members worked as cigar makers in their youth, then moved on to other jobs as the industry declined. Retired plumbers, electricians, dentists, tailors, lawyers, teachers and bakers now fill the group's ranks...
This is not the first time TV has ventured into real-life crime solving. NBC's occasional Unsolved Mysteries specials, for instance, have presented similar crime re-enactments (and helped catch five suspects). But doubtless, what makes America's Most Wanted the highest-rated show on the Fox network's schedule is the tabloid sensationalism of its crime dramatizations. The hand- held camera, slow-motion scenes of violence, and point-of-view shots of the victim cowering or the murderer attacking might have been lifted straight from Friday the 13th. Equally unsettling is the juxtaposition of these lurid minidramas with...
Mulvehal played an excellent first set, capturing a 6-4 decision. But the heat would soon catch up with Mulvehal. The junior, exhausted from the heat by the matches' end, dropped the final two sets...
...sweeteners with a Soviet partner. The company may also take part in a Soviet plan to increase the annual production of chickens from the current 500 million to 5 billion by the early 1990s. Starting next June, the growing legion of Soviet personal-computer users will be able to catch up on everything from software to peripherals in a new quarterly called PC World USSR, a spin-off of Massachusetts-based IDG Communications' PC World that will incorporate articles written by Soviet technical journalists...
...card declaring support for an election to decide the unionization question, with the rider that voting to hold an election is a "moral commitment" to voting to unionize. Then, does the author think that the union organizers are forced to huddle in the smoking lounge, hoping to catch one's attention with a few desperate pleas for a moment of one's time? In my office, the union organizers are considered--and treated--with friendly respect. Organizers come around every few weeks, yes, during work time, and stop at each person's office to exchange information and provide updates...