Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before he took the final steps to view what lay before him, his deputy, Stanley Greigg, took his arm and said, "Keep your sense of humor." Good advice, and O'Brien's face crinkled. He felt pretty good. Then he saw them, and for an instant his internal radar swept the horizon and put them up against the Democrats of other times. Not that much difference, he told himself with relief, after only a few seconds. People keep forgetting that Democrats have always come out of the streets and back alleys. More blacks, thought O'Brien...
...coach for the Winnipeg Jets for a staggering $2.75 million over the next ten years, including an immediate cash bonus of $1 million. The W.H.A., which calls the deal the fattest contract ever signed by a professional athlete, hopes that the superstar left-wing will give the new league instant luster in its rivalry with the 54-year-old National Hockey League. The N.H.L. responded with rumblings about the possibilities of a lawsuit...
...Provisionals, who had called for the ceasefire only after hot debate at a secret meeting in the hills just south of the border, might not be able to control their hard-lining Belfast units. On the other side, Northern Ireland's Protestant majority viewed the cease-fire with instant suspicion, fearing that it was the result of a secret deal. Leaders of the Protestant Ulster Defense Association warned: "Now we go on the offensive. If there is any question of killers being allowed to remain at liberty, we will go in and get them...
...lights were filtered in the national colors. But the crowd that settled into chairs before the speaker's platform were not prospective voters, or delegates, but candidates. They had come for a seminar on a topic of paramount importance to each of them: how, in the era of instant communication, to use television, radio and print to get themselves elected...
Certainly Kodak is eager to make and market instant-photo cameras, but that will not be easy. Polaroid employs no fewer than 25 patent attorneys, who have erected a blockade of some 1,000 patents around the Polaroid process. Though rights to the original Land inventions in instant photography have long since expired, no would-be competitor has been able to jump ahead of those that are still tightly protected. Thus, to an astonishing degree, Polaroid has no direct competition...