Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate Investigative Reporter Bob Woodward, that made the nation's highest tribunal a "sitting target." Together with Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong, Woodward set out to do for Chief Justice Warren Burger's Supreme Court what he and Carl Bernstein had done for Richard Nixon's White House in All the President's Men and The Final Days. Fortified by a $350,000 advance from Simon & Schuster, Woodward and Armstrong spent two years reading cases and interviewing Justices and more than 170 former court clerks, top-level law school graduates who serve as confidential aides...
...unclassified material. Still, FBI agents and officials at the Department of Energy, which underwrites the work at Sandia, were shocked that Shinkle could get such easy access to any company computer. James P. Crane, the DOE official in charge of security at Sandia, said last week that he had set up new monitoring procedures and restricted access to the computers...
...Boys Mysteries, is 21. Bride Ann Pennington, a former Playboy Playmate who models in bouncy commercials for a Los Angeles men's clothing chain, is seven years older. But that gap mattered not to a romance that began 19 months ago when Cassidy spotted Pennington on the Hardy set. Nor to the groom's mother, Actress Shirley Jones, who was on hand to toast the couple following a quiet wedding at the Cassidy home in Beverly Glen, Calif...
...only does The Who's old material sound vital now, the new songs are as powerful as anything the punks or the new wave set down. There are other supergroups, like the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac, who turn out a kind of well-tooled pop that beats The Who in the charts. There are even other hard-rock groups, like Led Zeppelin, that lay down a kind of sugar-lined bombast that can razzle-dazzle the record buyer. The Who's cumulative sales exceed 20 million records. The members' individual wealth?Townshend, Entwistle and Daltrey are all millionaires several times...
...allow us to continue." Townshend recalls thinking at the time, "How can I agree with something as 20th Century-Fox as that? But I felt it too. That besides being a sacrifice, Keith's death had given me a stronghold." The Who asked Kenny Jones to replace Moon, and set about trying to re-create the delicate imbalance of the group. Jones, as affable and easygoing as Moon was looney, plays with all his predecessor's fine fury, matching or surpassing him in musicianship, while wisely avoiding any attempt to duplicate Moon's madcap charades...