Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shea's (the O got separated from the family two generations back), offered this blessing: "They've done very well. They don't draw teenagers, but they draw everybody else. We've had steel bands, Dixieland, everything, but the big band is neat, especially our big band. Now just listen to that." They were playing Stella by Starlight...
This was the 6-ft., 3-in., 200 pound sophomore's first action on offense since he was five years old. "The coach came up to me and said "listen, I need a center'," Biotti said. "I'm glad he did because I love it. Once I erase my defensive programming, I'll be all right...
...professors' use of "speech" gradually became more extensive, its value decreased proportionally. Like addicts presented with an unlimited supply of heroin professors began to wallow unabashedly in the infinite possibilities of instructional noise. Soon they were trying to fit so much "speech" into one sentence that, well, listen for yourself to an example of the most dreaded of lecture hall horrors--The Harvard Hyperbole...
Even a small break in those lines can be dangerous, says Culhane, a night-shift supervisor of Harvard's utilities plant. "You stay keenly aware while walking through the tunnels and listen," he says. "A 100-pound steam line with a pinhole in it can do your skin a lot of damage...
When Jerry Cosentino talks, Illinois banks listen. The state's new treasurer is determined to force banks to reduce their interest rates for credit cards. Charging close to 20%, he says, is nothing more than "legal loan-sharking." Last week, after the First National Bank of Chicago refused to lower its 19.8% credit-card interest rate, Cosentino indignantly yanked $220 million in state deposits out of accounts at the bank. Said he: "Illinois taxpayers will not help fund this gouging of consumers any longer...