Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This brag may need hedging because, over the long haul, other singers - Barbra Streisand, to name one, and perhaps Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross - may have sold more records than Linda. (Carole King sold 13 million of a single LP, Tapestry.) Nevertheless, Ronstadt is the only female performer to have four consecutive albums go platinum (she made over $3 million from record sales alone last year). "Female" is the important qualifier. Rock is the thumping heart of Linda's music, and the rock world is dominated by males. The biggest stars are male, and so are the back...
...losses in the first. "Let's put it this way," says a top aide of the Council of Economic Advisers, "without the cold, we would have been in a lot better shape early in the year, but it shouldn't damage the economy over the long haul...
...paid $3.5 million into N.F.L. coffers for the privilege of broadcasting the big game?and collecting $250,000 per minute of commercial time. For Super Bowl XI (Will the institution be called Super Bowl LXXIII when it is as old as the World Series is now?), NBC will haul to Pasadena a massive force of personnel and about $5 million worth of equipment: 165 people, 14 of whom?headed by Curt Gowdy and Don Meredith?will appear on home screens; twenty-one cameras, 16 of them the full-size "hard" variety, three handheld, one in a helicopter...
Both loyalty and stupidity can be tiresome over the long haul, and Hanley's haul takes place over 368 relentless pages. The artist's death, near the end, gives his wife one of the few chances to make a genuinely moving speech: "1 knew my husband was a failure three long years ago, but you don't just walk out on a person just because they turn out to be second rate ... There's more to a man than that." Hanley wrests such epiphanies from meager raw materials, and it is easy to commend his skill...
...least ten to fifteen per cent of the parking spaces are not able to be used because we don't haul snow away from the university, we pile it into the corners of the parking lots," Vacha said...