Word: regular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides the apparent mental hazards, Woods says performing can be risky as a career because of the inherent uncertainty. In light of Rick Berlin's long-standing difficulties in acquiring a major-label recording contract, Woods says she would advise prospective musicians, "Get some training, and get a regular job. You don't want to do this. I would wish this on somebody I don't like...
...also praises Rick Berlin because the band's integration of pantomime makes its performances accessible to deaf concertgoers. She says, "We're the only band that has a regular audience of deaf people in the front row every week...
...regular there for a while," said Richard Broadman, who will be writing the script and editing the film. "And I was always impressed. Their primary concern has never been money. And you can't say that about many clubs in the Boston area...
Such clubs amount to informal, small-scale banks organized primarily by immigrants to help one another. Though the loan clubs are not legally prohibited, they operate outside regular U.S. banking laws and safeguards. Even so, they have nurtured fledgling businesses from the barrio to Chinatown in cities as diverse as Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. With loans ranging from a few hundred dollars to $20,000 or more, Vietnamese hui (associations) in Texas played a crucial role in reviving the moribund shrimping industry in the Gulf of Mexico by financing the purchase of dozens of boats. An estimated...
...attitude toward clean government? He was in college as part of the '50s "silent generation" charged with conformity and apathy. But Dukakis was never silent. Through student $ governments and publications, he was always "sounding off" -- just as, after launching his political career, he would launch a column, run a regular radio show and become the host of a TV series, The Advocates. For all his contained air, he was put into this world to bustle...