Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coincidence. In fact, many people, upon hearing the album for the first time point out that it sounds like a movie soundtrack. The similarity is that Davis, like a move maker, has picked a theme and stuck to it closely Furthermore, he has been successful in painting musical motion picture of "Kepler's Dream...
...Espriella, a respected former banker, tried to continue the course toward elections and democratic rule set in motion by Torrijos. But in fact, the pending election may have been what caused his departure. According to close friends, the former President was being pressured by the National Defense Forces to reorganize his Cabinet to include supporters of an official candidate. He may have stepped down rather than see the election become unfairly slanted...
...from a defense industry firm in Los Angeles that Lin, a technical supervisor for AT&T Information Systems in New Jersey, had been asking about the availability of transverse-wave-tube amplifiers. Following that lead, an undercover customs agent telephoned Lin and set the sting in motion. The person who agreed to provide the money was Zheng, who is believed to be a citizen of China...
They paused for only a moment, most of them, in those dim, drafty, primitively equipped studios on the far fringes of the motion-picture industry. They did their gigs, these black performers, without hope that they might somehow break through to the great white audience or achieve the dream of immortality. Their pressing concern was whether the producer's minuscule check was going to bounce. They passed into history not as indelible screen images but as fond, fading, sometimes discomfiting memories shared by a minority audience or, in a few cases, as distant rumors of great talent whispered...
...tell the Macintosh what to do, one moves the pointer on the screen by sliding the mouse across the desk. Once the pointer reaches the desired item on the display, a click of the button on the mouse sets the machine in motion...