Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were stopped at the doorway by a veiled stewardess who blocked our way. "Security," I said, flashing my card, "and this is my...uh...sniffer dog." She let us through...
...Sherlock Holmes noted in the curious case of the dog that did not bark in the night, the most important deductions involve things that did not happen. The fact that voters did not make it a referendum on Reagan's record indicated that his personal popularity does not transfer to his policies. The fact that they did not vote along party lines dispelled Republican hopes that certain regions and voting blocs would become part of a fundamental realignment from the Democrats to the G.O.P. The fact that national issues played little role was a sign that while voters...
...Boss's raps embellishing some of his songs in concert can be shaggy-dog goofs or poignant dramatic reveries. Live/1975-85 offers both. Growin' Up's monologue is addressed to his mother and father, both of whom are in the audience at a 1978 Los Angeles concert ("For six years they have been following me around California, trying to get me to come home"). The River, however, begins with much darker currents, a memory of how "me and my Dad used to go at it all the time, over almost anything." He recalls how his father waited until Springsteen was laid...
...volume of shares involved in the wild cycles of program trading -- lots of more than 500,000 at a time for each trader are common -- has become the "tail that wags the dog," says Manhattan Investment Manager Soros. Observes Louis Holland, a partner in the Chicago investment firm of Hahn Holland & Grossman: "The little guy in the street is very concerned about all this perceived volatility. He doesn't think he has a chance...
...Providence. He was formally enrolled at R.I.S.D. for just two semesters but subsequently spent one year hanging out and letting his fantasies roam wild. "He was doing conceptual art," Tina Weymouth remembers. "David has never been one for draftsmanship." Byrne earned some money working the grill at a hot dog stand but largely devoted himself to experimental extravagance. At Maryland he formed a duo called Bizadi with an accordion-playing friend, and would sometimes perform with a lighted candle on his violin...