Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tidy sum before the going gets serious. One former Olympic medalist once hinted to a shoe manufacturer that he wanted a new car. A few days later he was given the cash to pay for it. At the U.S. Olympic trials last summer, some track and field stars first ran their qualifying heats, then dashed into the stands to dicker with representatives of warring jock-shoe companies. While the athletes and the shoe companies settled on prices for putting brand names into the starting blocks at Montreal, U.S. Olympic officials played with their stop watches...
...first day of shooting, all the robots performed perfectly. It never happened again. Strange radio signals seemed to emanate from the Tunisian sand, and the remote-controlled Artoos ran wild, as if their oil had come from Vat 69. Says Barry: "I was incredibly grateful each time an Artoo actually worked right." Even Artoo Detoo, with Baker inside, seemed out of control. Baker could scarcely see where he was going through Artoo's headlights, and he bumped into the unwieldy Threepio, sending him tumbling. Daniels could not see much better through Threepio's eyes, covered with real gold...
...matter if the price goes to $1.50, and I think that gradually all the other film societies will raise their prices too." Brown uses semi-professional analysis to figure out what kind of audience each movie will draw, checking attendance figures for the last time it ran in the Cambridge area and judging the competition on the weekend he plans to run it. Still, things have backfired, and he's taken some big losses. As he wryly puts it: "You've got to be quick on your feet to show a movie." And Tankosic added: "We've miscalculated so many...
...next day I returned to my old high school, and of course the first person I ran into was Ignatius. "How's Haaaahhhvahd?" he asked...
Thou Shalt Never Lose Thine Cool. With a resolve that Evil Knievel would admire, my roommate ran to our table, grabbed another tray, and threw it down at his feet. Not content with this, he took two trays--full of food, mind you--out of the arms of passers-by, and happily let them drop on the now newly-decorated floor...