Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goalie Peter Fish, however, got stronger as the game grew longer. The Terrier netminder closed the contest with crucial blocks in the overtime period to finish with 28 saves...
...Many reasons. First of all, personally, if it had not been for the Tonight show and Johnny Carson, I wouldn't have a car -- probably wouldn't have shoes. But the real reason I look up to the guy is the longer I do this, the more respect I have for him. Show me somebody else in the history of television who has not only survived but also dominated for a quarter of a century. I think if you don't have respect for that, there's something wrong with...
...islands in the sea, but the space crunch keeps getting worse. Now some of Japan's largest construction companies think they have an answer: huge developments beneath the earth's surface where millions of people could work, shop and, perhaps eventually, make their homes. "An underground city is no longer a dream. We expect it to actually materialize in the early part of the next century," says Tetsuya Hanamura, the chief of Taisei Corp.'s proposed development...
...that was not erect: running Camembert, soft watches, sagging loaves of flesh held up by crutches. Naturally all this was much more shocking 50 years ago than it is today: Dali was regularly denounced by Fascists and Stalinists alike as a decadent threat to youth. When he could no longer annoy either the bourgeoisie or the self- appointed guardians of the proletariat, he mortally offended the avant- garde by embracing Franco and the Pope, and was duly drummed out of the surrealist group...
...shares has risen from 6 cents in 1975 to $5 currently. The company's 3,500 workers own 18% of its stock, with the prospect of eventually acquiring an additional 12%. In the case of Stone Construction Equipment, a small firm in Honeoye, N.Y., company heir Alan Stone no longer wanted to run the operation, so he sold it two years ago to his 200 employees for $4.5 million. Since then, annual revenues have jumped from $12 million to $30 million. The company's shares are scheduled to be distributed to employees within ten years...