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...constituency. Not too many years ago, radio stations, both black and white, refused to play rap records. And when the press wrote about rap, it was usually to chronicle a violent incident at a concert. Now hip young whites have hijacked rap to downtown clubs. Suburban teens, on the lookout for something new, have carried it out to the shopping malls. Fashion designers have picked up on the baggy pants and dark sunglasses of rap couture, while advertising executives have copied its semantic style ("Reeboks let U.B.U.," declares one ad in fluent...
...something to think about every waking minute of your life. It means being ever on the lookout for small commitments with large titles. It means struggling to get your resume included in the Harvard Guide to Careers...
...fuzzy. The ship's log shows the vessel passing Busby Island at 11:55 p.m., when Cousins told Hazelwood by phone that he was starting to turn. But the ship's course recorder shows that the Valdez did not start to change direction until seven minutes later. Next, the lookout on duty ran into the ship's pilothouse to report that a flashing red buoy near Bligh Reef, which should have been visible on the port (left) side, had been spotted on the starboard (right) side...
Circling each other warily, always on the lookout for decisive openings, Time Inc. and Paramount Communications engaged in a fresh round of legal and financial swordplay last week. No clear winner emerged in the epic duel, but the thrusts and parries offered Wall Street speculators plenty of titillation -- and uncertainty. Time's board started off by rejecting Paramount's sweetened takeover bid, in which the company raised its offer for Time from $175 to $200 a share, or a total of more than $12 billion. The Time directors reiterated their plan to go ahead with an acquisition of Warner Communications...
...been 233 such fires, which consumed a modest 34,157 acres. But the policy became increasingly controversial last July and August as the fires and smoke repeatedly drove tourists from the park. This, in turn, made federal officials in Washington as skittish as yellow-bellied marmots on the lookout for hungry eagles...