Word: guying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walked into the offices and told a typical story to police that TIME Correspondent James Willwerth overheard. Said she: "Well, I was in The Assembly [a Bayside, Queens, dating bar] about a year ago. It was a Friday, you know, and I started to talk to this guy named Eric. He had real burning eyes, you know? He kept staring at me. I asked him why he didn't dance. He said he hated people. He asked me to go out with him, and I finally said I would. At the end of the evening, I told...
...hearing room. Said one committee member afterward: "It would have been easier for us to go on the attack if he had come up here with a battery of lawyers and a prepared statement. But Lance came alone and barehanded. You've got to respect a guy for that...
Many experts believe, however, that the two big factors for change-competitive pricing and prepaid systems-will provide a momentum of their own. "There will be a lot more services provided, but many aspects of the profession will be downgraded," says one. "There will be legal clinics where one guy does nothing but handle divorces all day and the next one does nothing but complaints about faulty appliances...
...Atlantic in truly spectacular fashion. In six years, German investment has increased by 138%, to $1.9 billion; the Swedes have tripled their investment, and the French have raised theirs by almost 470%. Operating through businesses they control or family investment companies, such influential individuals as France's Baron Guy de Rothschild, Britain's Sir Jimmy Goldsmith and the Agnellis of Italy have all acquired seasoned American businesses...
...author goes on to describe how the birds who made their nests along the coast provided guano deposits so that a suitable loam was established for wild grasses to grow. Sir Guy concludes: "Thus eventually the whole of these areas became grass-covered, from the coarse marram on the exposed dunes, ridges, and hillocks and the finer bents and fescues in the sheltered dunes, gullies, and hollows, to the meadow grasses round and about the river estuaries and the mouths of the streams and burns. Out of the spreading and intermingling of all these grasses which followed was established...