Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basketball guard, is an aggressive negotiator. The Apple Corps is at a disadvantage dealing with a lawyer and a woman who has had advanced psychology courses. Before the last finishing nail is driven and countersunk, Judith has earned the admiration and respect of the crew by swinging her own hammer. That the firm does not make much money on the Souweine job suggests how hard it is to get rich in the construction business. Still, the Corps is a young outfit that needs the work. Jim, Ned, Alex and Richard are equal partners on an honor system that requires each...
...strode down the gangway onto the red carpet, they were greeted by President Mitterrand. Gorbachev reviewed an honor guard, then sped off for the center of Paris in a 20-car cavalcade surrounded by 50 motorcycle police. Along his way, the Champs Elysees had been decked out with red hammer-and- sickle flags beside the French Tricolor...
...loved him like a son, put the dog in a 6-ft.-long cotton-picker's sack and brought him out here to the piney woods in the northwestern corner of Alabama and buried him in a hole 3 ft. deep. Then he got a rock, and with a hammer and a screwdriver and cold chisel he etched out a cross and Troop's name and the date of his birth and the date of his death. Now 48 years later, 160 coon dogs are buried in the cemetery, and every year in September their owners come out to recall...
...respond to the Soviet merchants' tactics. The Japanese, the Australians and several West European nations complain that the Soviets have broken understandings on shipping policies and rates. None, however, has found a means to enforce the pacts. For now, maritime nations seem likely to find that ships flying the Hammer and Sickle are an increasingly dominant presence in their ports...
...rights to original recordings, rather than using made-for-TV imitations. The selections have ranged from '50s hits like the Coasters' Poison Ivy to recent numbers from Todd Rundgren, U2 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The rest of the show's bracing musical score is supplied by Jan Hammer, a Czech-born composer, using sounds stored in a digital computer synthesizer. Working in a state-of-the-art studio in his 150- year-old colonial home near Brewster, N.Y., Hammer composes the score for each episode from a rough cut sent to him by network courier. That is another break...