Word: hearings
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First of all, is the disappearance of an acoustic guitar maker really the best premise for a rock-'n'-roll quest film? Buster Poindexter's band, which gets to play for about 15 seconds, uses an electric guitarist anyway, and you can hardly hear him under all the brass. In addition, Julius himself, who gets a chance at one point to croon a bit of a folk song, proves himself an impossibly bad musician, so a "big break" hardly seems in order for him even if he could find Elmore Silk...
Reagan said he did not want to become involved in the GOP nomination fight, but he showed plenty of zest when it came to bashing the Democrats vying to succeed him. To hear them, he said, one would think "we're in an economic slump," and suffering from a variety of ills. "At the moment none of those things are true," he said...
...They only put forward what they want the Rent Control Board to hear," she said. "We do not have the power to do anything about...
...employees should not be forced to hear the administration's side from the people who are responsible for hiring them, approving their wage increases and passing judgement on their work. Supervisors cannot just put forth information, because they give that information an unfair advantage and a threatening aura...
...strategy comes easily to Gephardt because he, more than any other Democratic candidate, has an instinct to please, an inclination to tell people what he thinks they want to hear. Yet he is tapping a real well of discontent and economic nationalism. Such a message plays well in regions where times are hard and resentment is ready to be roused. But it is hardly a blueprint for governing...