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Northeastern, meanwhile, was using itssimilar-size advantage on offense to rack up over200 yards rushing. Quarterback O'Leary passed for156 additional yards (giving the visitors a totalyardage edge), but overthrew wide-open receivers anumber of times...
Once it was hailed as the ultimate manufacturing industry, an enterprise that would cut American labor costs, boost productivity and rack up as much as $4 billion in sales by 1990. Blue-chip giants stampeded to buy into the action; bankers panted to finance the heralded expansion. Optimism was seemingly unbounded for the U.S. robotics industry, which produced semi-intelligent machines that were expected to help American businesses compete with low-wage foreign rivals over the next two decades and to improve greatly the quality of American industrial production...
...Charisse during the Dancing in the Dark sequence of The Band Wagon that he attained romantic apotheosis. That film brought him to another kind of culmination. He always liked to shed his top hat, white tie and tails and make magic with homely props -- a golf club, a hat rack, a handful of firecrackers. In Band Wagon, glum and lonesome, he entered an amusement arcade and emerged 6 1/2 minutes later, having completed the greatest solo dance in movie history, Shine on Your Shoes...
...magazine rack in the waiting room of Dr. Carolina Goldstein's dental surgery on Agua Caliente Boulevard in Tijuana is stuffed with copies of Good Housekeeping and other U.S. publications. THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING says a notice in English. Nearby, stacked pamphlets, also in English, extol the virtues of resin-bonded ceramic fillings. Soft music from a San Diego radio station fills the room. It could easily be an American dentist's office. Indeed, in some ways that is exactly what it is. Like many other dentists, doctors, opticians and pharmacists in Tijuana, Goldstein relies on Americans, several coming...
...attorney who shops at the chain's store in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center: "In the old days, you had to buy a lot of big T shirts. If there was something you liked, you had to just hope it would be in your size at the end of the rack...