Word: parker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESPITE WHAT increasingly appears a futile exercise, O'Neill's troops tenaciously maintain that their man will be on top in September. At a reception in the plush Parker House Wednesday night, O'Neill told 500 supporters he was "in the race to stay." But if he continues on his cruise to lose, the key question his candidacy raises is what effect--if any--his persistence will have on his more formidable contenders...
...having success selling encryption devices to companies. Some of Datotek's best customers are oil firms, which fear that competitors will steal the results of oilfield tests that reveal promising drilling sites. Computer-security specialists predict that the demand for electronic scramblers will soon explode. Says Donn Parker of SRI International, a California research firm: "Encryption is the control of the future. During the '80s it will become very important...
...defensemen don't usually block, that many shots." Terrier coach Jackie Parker said afterward. "Our defense covered very well in our own zone...
SHOOT THE MOON Directed by Alan Parker; Screenplay by Bo Goldman...
...Kramer vs. Kramer. As he proved in Melvin and Howard, Bo Goldman is a very good writer, a man whose world appears to be filled with mild eccentrics and funny overheard remarks that he gets down just right in his mental notebook. His specificity seems to have disciplined Alan Parker, who in the past has liked to stress the ugly metaphorical overtones in his material (in Midnight Express he kept insisting that the whole world is a Turkish prison, when really only Turkish prisons are Turkish prisons). Except for reaching for too big a finish, a fight between George...