Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accept business as usual." The campaigns of Washington and Goode also reflected a subtle but important development in black political sophistication: the willingness of black businessmen and professionals to provide substantial financial backing. A Washington aide estimates that blacks contributed 50% of the mayor's $2 million war chest...
Depressed states and cities are battling back to attract new companies with tax breaks and seed money. Cleveland is launching a $5 million venture-capital fund that will give money to new local companies. Cincinnati has put together a $15 million war chest. Illinois and Chicago set up a ten-story, low-rent "incubator building" in the city for fledgling firms. Last fall, when a group of electronics companies announced plans to launch a joint computer research center that would have an annual budget of up to $100 million, 57 cities in 27 states put in bids...
...Sparts descend on Anderson with all the vitriol of a permanently irrelevant sect. "Some of us, including the Spartacists," writes Tom Cowperthwaite, as if the two were somehow different, "have chosen not to wear every radical-sounding button on our chest (sic)..." But just sentences before, he accuses Anderson of hiding his politics to keep "his radical-chic image intact." Which is it. Tom-of-the-non-radical-chic-image? Alden Cavanagh, displaying the SYL's talent for historical discrimination, subtly equates Anderson's original letter with Hitler's Big Lie, and then oddly smears Anderson for having defended...
...orders. MASH jumped back into the fray with a declaration that policemen, like all other citizens, are entitled to go to the opera. As for MAD, perhaps it could expand to meet the new crisis, possibly forming new groups called Memphians Against Damsels Doing Ecdysiast Routines (MADDER), Memphians Against Chest Hair at Operas (MACHO) or, to honor the Met, Memphians Against Culture Buffs Exposing Themselves Heedlessly (MACBETH...
...speeder-bike chases through the redwoods were an example. To give the illusion of speed, a cameraman walked through a forest near Crescent City, Calif, while the camera strapped to his chest ran film at one-thirtieth its normal speed. When that film was put into a projector at regular speed, the cameraman's stroll became a hair-raising 150-m.p.h. race between the experienced storm troopers and the amateur rebels...