Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...printer, estimates that he and his co-workers spent eight months creating just 3 1/2 minutes of special effects for E.T. like the bicycles that flew through the air at the film's end. "I compare it to working on a cathedral," he says. "I'm just a stone mason working on a gargoyle in a corner. I want to make the best one I can, of course. But I just wish they'd use more gargoyles...
Many investors feel compelled to go along with the stampede even if they doubt the common wisdom behind it. Says Mason Sexton, president of the market-forecasting firm Harmonic Research: "I have been urging investors since September not to stand in the way of this beast. Wall Street is littered with the bodies of traders who underestimated the power of this bull market." Others see a worrisome possibility that the stock market will lose any realistic relationship with economic growth. Says De Lutis: "If the market has a substantial rise and gets way ahead of the economy, then it would...
...tenured scholar of American politics yesterday said he will leave Harvard next spring to assume a lifetime post at Virginia's George Mason University...
...more rural here, the winters are warmer, and there's more sun," Heclo said from the White Post, Va., home where he has lived for the past year while on sabbatical at George Mason...
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Left-hander Mike Mason struck out a career-high 10 batters and held the Kansas City Royals to six hits in leading the Texas Rangers to a 4-0 victory yesterday night...