Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hammerstein offered that lyrical advice to young lovers, but a great many TV news staffers have adopted it as an inviolable rule of tongue. Happy talk is not reprehensible, but should it be force-fed to an audience looking for the news? Surely not, no more than a sports fancier tuning in football should be obliged to endure Tom Brookshier and Pat Summerall happily going over their personal travel schedules...
...cannot quarrel with the figures, you can certainly pick a fight with the numbers-the songs. From the straight-ahead tunes of their early years, like Listen to the Music, the Doobies have turned fancier, slicker and more synthetic. They were a good singles band that was tuned up and turned into a commercial phenomenon. Producer Ted Templeman did the tuning. When he produced the first Doobies album in 1971, the band was led by Founder Tom Johnston, a hang-tough rocker who wrote many of the group's first hits. Templeman gave the early records an uncluttered, unaffected...
...meat and cut out snack goodies like potato chips. Well, I resent it when I cut and the Government doesn't." Cassie Marsh, a Detroit secretary and wife of a retired insurance agent, complains that Government bureaucrats "keep getting more raises, adding more and more people and getting fancier offices. You never hear of them cutting back." For many voters the economic mess is overshadowing all other U.S. problems. Says Rick Osban, service manager for a St. Louis truck manufacturer: "I'm more worried about inflation than about anything the Soviets may do overseas...
Noll came to the Steelers in 1969 with good bloodlines, as Owner Art Rooney, a noted horse fancier, likes to point out: he had become a football fundamentalist while playing guard and linebacker for the old Browns, and he coached under Sid Gillman in San Diego and Don Shula in Baltimore. When Noll arrived, the Steelers were the pushovers of the N.F.L.; they had won just 18 games in the previous five seasons. Noll had no choice but to rebuild the team through the annual college player draft. His very first pick: Defensive Tackle Joe Greene. The following year Noll...
...workers and import engines and other components from Japan. Beginning in 1983, the firm will turn out 10,000 Ohio-built cars a month, roughly a third of its 1979 U.S. sales. The models: probably the two-door, hatchbacked Civic, a compact that lists for $4,049, or the fancier Accord, which costs...