Word: nails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This will be a tooth and nail fight, and we will spend a lot of time" trying to prevent the regulations from becoming law, says Thomas K. Steel, vice-president and general counsel of the New England Cable Television Association. "The regulations are totally overzealous, surrealistic even." Steel adds...
...have nothing to fear," he announced. Sure enough, the authorities could muster no more % serious charge against him than illegal possession of firearms. Six weeks later he was released on bail, and the case is now in limbo. "We know who (the cocaine kings) are, and we can't nail them," says Police Captain Guillermo Benavides. "But the worst thing is that even if we could get all the bosses, new ones would immediately take their places. They'd pop up like mushrooms...
...that in almost 20 years of playing, the Dead have never managed to record a song that sold enough copies to make it as a hit single. They have had fair success with albums, but their ecstatic, visionary offshoot of rock spins with improvisation, and the necessity to nail things down in a studio version tends to fossilize the band...
...Bloomingdale's in New York City, a new tool cannily combines several grooming appliances in one 6-oz. unit. The 4-in. blower of Schildkraut's red plastic and metal gadget ($33) becomes both blow dryer and handle for the iron. Another take-along is Le Dome ($16.50) instant nail dryer. Simply insert fingers or toes into its plastic chamber, and a battery-driven fan dries them in two minutes...
...people like (Defense Secretary Caspar) Weinberger slip in the back door and get policy changed at odd hours without anybody realizing what's happened." A lobbyist agrees, but prefers things that way. Says he: "If Baker blocked you, you could go to Meese or Clark. No more. Regan will nail up the back door." A Washington-based business leader sees another key difference in the Baker and Regan styles. "Let's face it," he contends, "Baker and those guys are Machiavellian operators. They'd tell you one thing, but you had no idea what they were really doing. With Regan...