Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fearing the worst, the Senate began to apply pressure to U.S. allies. In June, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia introduced an amendment to a defense authorization bill, calling for the withdrawal of as many as 90,000 U.S. troops between 1987 and 1990 unless NATO members increased their defense spending and improved military facilities. The amendment was defeated, 55 to 41, but Nunn may resubmit it if necessary...
...merely coasting for a while, not collapsing. The consensus of four dozen forecasters surveyed monthly by Robert J. Eggert for his newsletter Blue Chip Economic Indicators is that G.N.P. growth will pick back up to 3.3% in 1985. A growing number of analysts, however, are more skeptical. Says Sam Nakagama, a Wall Street economic consultant: "We are already in the midst of a mini-recession, and the danger is that the economy will slide into a full-fledged recession...
...What interests me is a series of shocks and encounters a person can have," confesses Sculptor George Segal. For nearly three decades, the master of plaster has recorded those seismic occasions, and in George Segal (Rizzoli; 379 pages; $65), Art Historians Sam Hunter and Don Hawthorne have gathered the best of them, from '50s paintings like Dead Chicken to his life-size casts of individuals trapped in time. Throughout his long career, the artist has trumpeted his message of alienation...
...first Muzak recording in 1934 was a medley of Whispering, Do You Ever Think of Me? and Here in My Arms, performed by Sam Lanin's orchestra. The first customers were householders in the Lakeland section of Cleveland, who were offered, for $1.50 a month, three channels ranging from dance music to news. As a novelty, Muzak might well have gone the way of Sam Lanin's orchestra. But a series of experiments started in the late 1930s provided Muzak with the secret that converted base music into gold...
...with the boy in tow, for his long-lost wife (Nastassja Kinski). Welcome to the new West, pardner, where the myth of the loner is yoked to the grail of domestic reconciliation. No wonder Paris, Texas is as powerfully schizoid as its title: German director (Wim Wenders), American screenwriter (Sam Shepard), the clashing strategies of an international cast. With his gorgeous, precise images of the American Southwest, Wenders suggests a cinematic landscape artist forced by the moneylenders to add some human figures to the picture. Their motivations refuse to parse, and the film ends up where Travis began: parched...