Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than it had bargained for. Specter would not comment on the matter; a staffer said the Senator "did nothing for Dravo that he doesn't do regularly for Pennsylvania companies, many of whom are not contributors." Buried in the 97-page bill, Specter's measure was approved with little fuss, and it later became part of last year's $290 billion defense appropriation. Congress added a dash of austerity: a $10 million cap was put on the amount Dravo could be reimbursed...
...long run, most of this fuss is for nothing. If we remember anything five years later about a movie's conclusion, it is usually an image, a scrap of dialogue or a performance, not how the plot unraveled, congealed or died. Unfortunately, most movies these days are made for the very short run; their futures are often determined by the opening weekend's box-office take. And the feeling is that nothing brings the kids in like rumors of big action along a plot line full of hairpin curves. A lot of movies with bliss-out potential are blitzed...
...fuss at Eastern drew attention away from Delta's continuing bad luck. At Los Angeles International Airport, a SkyWest commuter plane collided on a taxiway with a Delta 767. Both planes were damaged, but no one was injured. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Meanwhile, two Delta jets had to make unscheduled landings: a 727 flying from Calgary, Alta., to Salt Lake City touched down in Great Falls, Mont., because of a pressurization problem, and an Atlanta-bound DC-8 returned to Las Vegas after it developed engine trouble...
...when all the fuss subsided...
...Tonight?, which purports to dish out the hot sticky behind the entire episode. Meanwhile, the King's official ex-wife, Actress Priscilla Presley, is offering a one-hour video tour of Elvis Presley's Graceland. It isn't hard to figure what Elvis would have made of all this fuss: he was used to it. Besides, Colonel Tom Parker, his manager, could always work it out so that he and his boy got a good cut of the action...