Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty years have passed since Van Cliburn, that apple pie-fed Texan, conquered Moscow in the first Tchaikovsky competition, which required performance of the concerto. Since then, with the rise in competitions' importance, the work has become one of the most overplayed of all repertoire staples. The passion and fervor of the work, which seemed so wild and new in 1875, can strike the jaded modern ear as overworn and even vacuous...
...editorial and advertising communities. When Lear set out, media types fed on her large fees for articles and dined out on her atrocities: editorial meetings attended by her masseuse, hairdresser and manicurist; mercurial changes of mind; an interview with a job applicant at which Lear announced that if she had such a resume she would consider committing suicide. But it went both ways. One early employee remembers an army of consultants, "men with boiled-out faces who said 'gals' and complained about 'old women.' So you see what the attitude was and how she had to fight." Isolde Motley...
Although most Westerners find it difficult to think of a chicken cast as a fearsome combatant, these feisty birds really can put up a fight. Cockfighters are specially bred roosters trained from birth in the ancient arts of war and fed on carefully concocted diets. The inch-long, hard spurs on each rooster's legs become dangerous weapons when the bird jumps through the air, furiously beating his wings and trying to stab his opponent...
...short, NASA was force-fed a harsh dose of reality: the glory days of the 1960s are long gone. It may be that the only way the U.S. can remain a power in space in the face of a strong Soviet manned program and aggressive foreign commercial ventures is if NASA shares the costs -- and the rewards. The question now is whether a policy outlined by a lame-duck President will carry much weight with his successors...
Lind's deadly combination of speed and skill really shined in overtime against Princeton two weeks ago. Lind chased down a puck from 180 feet away, split two defenders, and fed the puck to linemate Julie Sasner for a heart-stopping goal...