Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days. Mondale said the U.S. fleet, "which has proven its effectiveness," should remain off the Lebanese coast. Colorado Senator Gary Hart charged that Reagan "gave the phony impression of assuming responsibility, but it wasn't his job to put up fences and sandbags in Leba non. The hook he is on is how to get the Ma rines out of Lebanon...
...exclusive annual Denver Debutante Ball, hardly an eyebrow was raised when the cellist put a down "jacket on over his tuxedo to play. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., the A.A.A. was so swamped with pleas from stranded motorists that it was forced to take phones off the hook for three hours, only the third time it had done so in 15 years...
...anything but a modest proposal. General Motors, the world's largest automaker, would hook up with Toyota, the No. 3, to build some 200,000 small cars a year in a now closed Chevrolet plant outside San Francisco. When it was announced last February, the plan provoked cries of alarm from rival car manufacturers and set off an intensive Federal Trade Commission review. Last week, after GM and Toyota signed an agreement stating that they would abide by U.S. antitrust laws, the FTC gave the green light to the venture...
...stand firm on the zero option. He argued that while Kvitsinsky could disavow the walk-in-the-woods plan, Nitze could not, and the U.S. would be in the position of having agreed in principle to give up the Pershing II. That would let the West Germans off the hook. They would be able to claim the U.S. had admitted that NATO did not need the Pershing II after...
...sounding like Perry Como. In fact, this song is so pathetically and limply delivered that it can't even be savored as good camp. "Drei Mann in doppelbett," on the other hand, links a pub chant with a synthopop rhythm with slightly more successful results. Nevertheless, neither the hook nor the rhythm of this song is good enough to warrant its redundancy...