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...balance the budget. He reminds voters he was an altar boy, shoots defenseless geese in Ohio and is very close to Bill Clinton's economic adviser, Robert Rubin, a man Wall Street loves. In foreign policy Kerry also strikes a traditionalist tone that is not out of place among old-school, Powell-style Republicans. He says he will go back to our old alliances and increase troop levels worldwide...
Besides, the Red Sox are 11-8 against the Yankees this year, and they made fine work of sweeping the Anaheim Angels. And they’ve also decided to go old-school. Really old-school, back to the five championships they won between 1903 and 1918. Because while “Cowboy Up” seemed a slightly strange choice for a Boston anthem, the Red Sox have picked a winner in this year’s “Tessie.” It was chosen as a battle cry in 1903 by The Royal Rooters, a group...
...old-school laboratory lumped under the sprawling U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS keeps pumping out high-tech solutions to a broad array of problems, ranging from the urgent (how to eradicate plant and animal diseases) to the less pressing (how to duplicate the tangy taste of San Francisco's sourdough bread outside the Bay Area). Along the way, the agency has won numerous patents for breakthrough mechanisms, like the one pending for turning peanut shells into hydrogen fuel and another for harnessing chicken manure to remove metals from polluted water...
...children, he borrowed money and opened Dangerfield's club in New York City. His tie-tugging tics and depressive one-liners became a staple on TV in the 1970s and '80s; and, as a late-blooming movie star in films like Caddyshack and Back to School, he made his old-school comedy seem eternally young. - By Richard Zoglin
...current four members turned to music and formed the band that is finally gaining the recognition they deserve. At less than 33 minutes long, the CD might just be too short to contain all the rock. Characterized by driving distorted guitar riffs, howling vocals and the old-school background subtleties of the electric organ, the Features cast themselves into the ranks of the Strokes and Jet. Highlights include the disc’s fourth track, “Blow Out,” that opens with a Weezer-esque upbeat chord progression beneath a few bars of catchy background vocals...