Word: sellouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month-old baby; Chambers' wife is expecting her own in July. Not incidentally, the band also has a smashing new album called Learning to Crawl (No. 13 on the charts) that has no current rival for tough rock and straight talk. There is the present sellout U.S. concert tour from Honolulu to Radio City Music Hall, ending May 6 in Buffalo. And there are, apparently, quite a few lessons that have been learned...
...actual world of espionage, however, the sellout price can apparently be that low. According to allegations made by an FBI agent after a 15-month investigation, Richard Craig Smith, 40, a former U.S. Army counterintelligence specialist, sold information last year to a Soviet KGB agent for precisely that sum. His betrayal gave away the identity of a U.S. double agent whom Smith had supervised for nearly two years. Smith was arrested last week at Washington's Dulles Airport after voluntarily flying from his home in Bellevue, Wash., to face charges of espionage...
...Walt's. Disney controls about 2.7% of the firm's stock and is rumored to be gradually acquiring more. Others mentioned as possible buyers are Coca-Cola, RCA and Press Lord Rupert Murdoch. As a takeover subject, Disney will be no Bambi. Current management bitterly opposes a sellout. Last week Disney officers boosted their credit line from $400 million to $1.3 billion in order to fill the firm's war chest...
...Honestly, I am baffled by the virulence of their attack, since it has no relation to my position on South Africa and divestment. I would hope that those people who read Henry Parketal's letter would look at my article before they class me as a racist or a sellout. Damon A. Silvers '86 H.R SASC
...previous album. Big Science. Her collaboration with Peter Gabriel. "Excellent Birds" will probably and unfortunately become a hit single. And much of the album utilizes the African polyrhythm and synthesizer effects that made Talking Heads' Remain in Light such an influential album. Nevertheless, this album is not a sellout; nor is it a rehash of the African-funk sound which Brian Eno and David Byrne pioneered in the early...