Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clay extend back almost a decade, when brothers Thomas M. Hammond '90 (guitar and vocals) and Benjamin M. Hammond '89 (bass) used that name for their band in junior high school. Taking their name from a friend's home movie, Men of Clay was originally a heavy metal band...
Because construction workers have graciously agreed to bang metal and scream profanity at increased volume levels every nine minutes in the early morning, lucky North House students no longer have to worry about faulty snooze butttons. Still, the other planned improvements are so stunningly behind schedule and over-budget, that I decided to ask a few officials some questions. They were hesitant to discuss the matter...
...meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund were startled to hear the U.S. Treasury Secretary suggest a new role for gold in international economic affairs. To be sure, Baker was not advocating a return to the gold standard, in which the price of the precious metal would be fixed in all the major currencies. But the Secretary said countries might use an index of the worldwide prices of gold and other heavily traded commodities as a partial guide in coordinating economic policies. If that index was rising, for example, it would be a sign of inflationary pressures...
...money, many messengers whiz around the city in pseudokamikaze style, heeding neither red lights nor one-way signs, zagging on and off sidewalks, leaving behind a wake of screeching tires and cursing pedestrians. Many messengers even opt for bikes without brakes, to save on a few pounds of heavy metal...
...ambitious Viet Nam series, should have been smarter and better timed. This cleaned-up-for-TV look at an American platoon in 1967 might have just passed muster a couple of years ago, before the recent surge of Hollywood interest in Viet Nam. After Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, it just won't do. When a battle-hardened sergeant (Terence Knox) grills a group of new recruits in search of "winners, survivors" for his platoon, he rules out marijuana users right away: "If you're smokin' dope and gettin' high, you're not listenin' to me. You don't listen...