Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, the sun didn't shine. A crisp autumn breeze didn't rustle the turning leaves. And ten thousand men of Harvard, clad in chinos and pullover sweaters, didn't cheer the Crimson on to victory. So much for atmosphere...
Because of the improved ball handling, the offense no longer relies on "sending" a forward toward the goal with a lob pass, but rather uses more controlled, short, crisp passes, which accounted for 24 shots on goal...
...called Venrock was created in 1969. It has since made lucrative investments in both Intel, a successful semiconductor manufacturer, and Apple Computer. One venture that did not work out was Advent Corp., which filed for bankruptcy when its big-screen TV sets did not sell. Admits Managing Partner Peter Crisp, 48: "We have some companies that have lost money, of course, but no really big bloopers...
...played in an excruciatingly droll fashion by Chip Zien, a leaky roof is kept over all heads. From the opening number, Four Jews in a Room Bitching, the humor is spikily and spicily urban and ethnic. The actors are spirited, and Director James Lapine's tempo is stopwatch crisp. In astringence and cleverness, Finn is the child of Stephen Sondheim. In the current musical theater, no one could choose a better master or pay an apter tribute...
...deal with such routine legal issues as workmen's compensation, divorce settlements and tort actions, see her in the mold of judges who exercise "judicial restraint." "She tends to be a literalist with acute respect for statutes," said Frank O'Connor's colleagues consider her decisions crisp and well written. "Mercifully brief and cogent," said McGowan. "Clear, lucid and orderly," said Frank. But one Supreme Court clerk finds her writing "perfectly ordinary-no different from any other 2,000 judges around the country...