Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ducal palace to which Goya came, along with the best writers and wits in Madrid. From the Countess of Chinchon, pregnant, dithering and infinitely vulnerable in her misty white mass of sprigged muslin, to the level, sagacious gaze of his friend the art collector Sebastian Martinez, Goya left on record an extraordinary sequence of human presences...
...band, which has two featured singers and seven rambunctious musicians besides Don and his compadre David Was, has a distinctive, daffy humor, a rhythmic sense that is honed until it gleams and a stiff spine about matters of conscience. Once badgered by market-wary Geffen Records, as Don puts it, to "get rid of the black guys," Was (Not Was) hung tough. Same as they did when told by another company there would be no band pictures, "because we don't want black radio to see they're white, and we don't want white radio to see they...
...permit Bush to accommodate a "newly perceived reality" and then allow him to abandon his "no new taxes" promise. If so, the President will undoubtedly be glad to take a passing hit for having been misinformed. Bush survived Iran- contra, when reporters and adversaries were rooting around in his record to prove his complicity. He is even more likely to survive an Ignorance Sting, since most responsible Congressmen and economists have been hoping that he will somehow wake up and do "the right thing...
Federal law requires that traders and brokers must try to get the best possible price for their customers when executing trades. But because the deals are conducted orally, illegal trades are difficult to catch. When four FBI agents masqueraded as commodities dealers, however, they were able to secretly tape-record the transactions taking place at the Board of Trade and ! the Mercantile Exchange...
Three years ago, Yale had a nationally-ranked team. Two years ago, the Elis finished fourth in the ECAC. Last year, the Elis slipped to 10th in the league with a 6-16 record...