Word: shining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people arguing about bets; 'Hold on there, I'll handle this' (waving pint of whiskey, fistful of dollar bills); girl riding piggyback, T-shirt says, "Stolen from Fort Lauderdale Jail.' Thousands of teen-agers, group singing 'Let the Sun Shine In,' ten soldiers guarding the American flag...So far we hadn't seen that special kind of face...the mark of the whiskey gentry--a pretentious mix of booze, failed dreams and a terminal identity crisis; the inevitable result of too much inbreeding in a closed and ignorant culture...
...could be Bernie Carbo tossing the warmup ball into the gold reflected shine of the blue and red box seats, pepper finished for the day, while the pitchers ramble out to the bullpen...
...chiefs' credentials are impressive: they have either spent decades struggling up through the ranks or combined street experience with a lot of college credits (at least four are Ph.D.s). Nonetheless, politics was often what put the final shine on their brass. Virtually all the major cities where they serve have at least a 25% black population, and the appointment of a black has commonly been seen as a concession to the minority community, one that is, of course, standard in U.S. urban history. But the new appointees are no guarantee against continued turmoil. Dickson is Miami's third chief...
...push into IBM's domain have so far been costly failures. The Apple III in 1980 was plagued by bugs. The Lisa in 1983 was considered too pricey at $10,000, about twice the cost of competing models. Apple hopes the business community will take more of a shine to the Macintosh. At the company's annual meeting last week, Chairman Steven Jobs and President John Sculley formally announced a campaign to sell corporate America on a new product line called the Macintosh Office. The core is AppleTalk, a system that will allow businesses to link as many...
What's more, the national spotlight could shine brighter than ever on the clubs across the Rivah...