Word: perking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sheppards sides and made an album released this summer. While the record has not made the charts, it has delighted Sheppards buffs and ensured the group a rightful niche in rock history. The tunes are mostly sweet, short love songs delivered in two basic styles: what Singer O.C. ("Perk") Perkins calls "that good old gospel harmony"; and a harder, more sinewy sound that took gospel harmonies and made them sweat and work for a living, in the manner of Wilson Pickett. The Sheppards made these disparate approaches into their own distinctive style...
This is also the city that brought us Mayor Ralph Perk, who in late 1975, while using a blowtorch to snip a metal ribbon at the opening of a local steel mill, accidentally slipped and torched all the hair off his scalp...
...Congressman from Illinois knows all too well the fix he is in. "We are getting into a critical phase of the campaign," he says. He tried his best to perk up his showing by performing the tasks that party candidates accomplish at conventions: choosing a running mate and issuing a platform. His vice presidential selection, Democrat Patrick J. Lucey, former Governor of Wisconsin (see box), is hardly likely to give Anderson a major boost. Lucey is a skilled campaign planner and organizer, and has close ties to labor leaders, who have been very suspicious of Ander son. Still, Lucey...
...dawn to compete with the News for early morning readers. But unlike Tonight, which is substantially different in hard news content from the morning edition, the Post remains virtually the same all day long, although the editors may change headlines as many as six times throughout the day to perk up sales. And Tonight is only part of a $20 million investment that the News and its parent, Chicago's Tribune Co., are making in what News Publisher Robert Hunt calls "the most ambitious editorial-improvement plan in our 61-year history...
Even so, the Carter Administration's priority, four months before the election, is now to slow the steep decline rather than to fight inflation. The Federal Reserve last week announced the end of the short-lived credit restraints imposed in March. The President plainly wants the public to perk up spending...