Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is risk. Less at $75 per share than at $100 per share. At $100 per share, I will have to sell off more businesses. But our tobacco business can stand a lot of leverage. It's the sheer size of this thing that makes everybody shake their heads. I've felt like an Iranian hostage for the past 43 days. You say, would you have done this if you had it to do over again? And my answer is yes. I can look every day into the mirror and say this was the right thing...
...appraisal of their entire season. When corps member Julie Kent, 17 and exquisite, won the ingenue role, angry charges of unfairness increased. Fraser notes that when the movie was finished and Kent's disastrous speaking voice squeaked through the land, tempers cooled. Comments Fraser: "Never underestimate the balm of sheer malice...
...others do. The sheer numbers of Hispanic immigrants, their cohesiveness and their growing political power set these immigrants apart from earlier groups who had to assimilate or fail. In the Miami area, for example, Spanish- language versions of everything from lottery tickets to televised game shows, as well as bilingual shops and restaurants and even jobs where only Spanish is acceptable, make it possible to live a full life without ever learning English. So widespread had Spanish become in Miami that in 1978 Emmy Shafer started the English-only movement when she could not find a clerk in the Dade...
...knew coming in that Ron had the potential to be a real impact player for us, and so far he's been just that in practice," Roby said. "He's not only very talented in terms of sheer athletic ability, but he also has a mind for the game...
...Juan, Eva's rather buffoonish husband, Dean Shapiro is appropriately clownish. His funny, well-acted portrayal of Juan's weakness serves as a counterpoint to Eva's sheer determination. He carries off the part well, though his voice could be stronger. Andrew Dietderich deliberately overacts as the other foolish man in the show--Magaldi, Eva's first lover--and is quite amusing...