Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governor's bill, but let me tell you at every street corner in America he will declare it as his bill," Senate Assistant Minority Leader David Locke said in a floor speech to block swift consideration of the bill...
...referring merely to street-corner vendors who tempt passersby with "cashmere scarves" for $15. Fake cashmere shows up in major department stores, which are sometimes duped by unscrupulous importers. The counterfeit cloth can come from many parts of the world, but according to the C.C.I.A. and the Federal Trade Commission, the largest quantities are originating in Prato, Italy, a textile town near Florence. Cashmere from England and Scotland is above suspicion, since those countries have stringent regulations to combat counterfeiting...
...slumped below 100,000 copies a month (compared, for example, with nearly 500,000 for Uncanny X-Men), and DC Comics President Jenette Kahn decided that "there was a coat of rust on the man of steel." She also knew that the audience for comics was changing. The corner candy store where kids used to buy comics has largely disappeared, and the kids have grown older. Today's buyers average about 20 and are apt to be science students or even engineers, "techies" with money to spend on modems, VCRs, quadraphonic sound and the book-length comics now known...
...tests of this theory. Sheldrake explains away outcomes that would seem to disprove his proposal. He himself is extremely credulous, gleeful that his ideas allow for telepathy, reincarnation, collective memory and the like. With his formative causation, it seems, anything goes, and the details expand and contract into every corner of the scientific edifice...
...good as you think you are, and went out and proved it. The Engineers took chances. Goalie Steve Duncan roamed far from his net to make saves and buy cotton candy for his friends in the stands. Graeme ("The Slam") Townshend played sheriff, backing Crimson players into the corner and reading them their rights...