Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pickens, chief of Mesa Petroleum Inc., is known for his frequent attempts to seize a controlling interest in a company and then to sell-out at a profit once his threat becomes apparent. Such tactics are known as "greenmail...
...irony of rock, freshly politicized, being attacked for excessive raunch, by recalling "those people who are trying to censor records" before launching in- to his classic Walk on the Wild Side. Live Aid may have been slicker and more elaborate, but FarmAid had the edge musically. There were frequent appearances throughout the 14 3/4-hour event by Co-Organizer Willie Nelson, whose heavy responsibilities never weighted the sensual ease of his vocals. There were also high-spirited performances by CoOrganizer John Cougar Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, Loretta Lynn and Emmylou Harris, and an incendiary set by Bob Dylan, whose remarks at Live...
Crimson junior Gia Barresi made frequent drives from her left wing post and expertly inbounded many corner passes...
...that for the general population, estimated to be only 1 in 300 to 400 (most of whom will never show AIDS symptoms themselves but could give the disease to others). Many prostitutes are also intravenous drug users, the group at second-highest risk of developing AIDS because of the frequent - sharing of needles. Researchers speculate that male customers of infected prostitutes may risk absorbing the AIDS virus into their bloodstream from vaginal discharge during intercourse, though that form of transmission has not been proved...
...disaster in Bhopal and the nuclear-arms race with Pakistan. Or, more trivially, as the land of tandoori chicken and the Nehru jacket. India's reputation has also suffered, at least among Americans, from the country's professed detachment in conflicts between the U.S. and the Soviets, and the frequent appearance of a political entente between New Delhi and Moscow. Says Festival Coordinator Niranjan Desai of India's embassy in Washington: "We are a developing country, but the already developed aspects of our nation are not fully understood. We have historic reasons for neutrality...