Word: slews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slew of new Nobel laureates are recognized for developing drugs, insights into the subatomic world, unraveling the mysteries of photosynthesis, and a theory of prices and markets...
Dear John is just one of a slew of new shows that focus on not-so-swinging singles. Single dad James Naughton copes (tediously) with a teenage daughter in CBS's Raising Miranda, and Richard Mulligan mugs (insufferably) as a middle-aged widower in NBC's Empty Nest. Meanwhile, Kate Jackson reprises Diane Keaton's role as a Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers...
...more I hear about such natural disasters, the more helpless I feel. There hasn't been such a slew of tragedies holding the media's attention since the big disaster movie boom of the 1970s when sharks, infernos and ship wrecks covered the movie ad pages. Perhaps the fact that so many natural disasters occurred within one short time period is just some sort of bad coincidence. But the fact that so many of these disasters are considered worst-evers in their categories probably has a more real-world cause...
...verdict in the six-month trial may darken the Hunts' prospects in a slew of other silver-crash lawsuits, which had been put on hold pending the outcome of the Minpeco case. Two class actions filed by some 17,000 investors now await hearings before the U.S. district judge who presided over last week's verdict, Morris Lasker. The Hunt family's advisers believe that no domino effect will occur, since the other lawsuits differ in some respects from the Minpeco case. But that may be wishful thinking. Says a Government official: "The Hunts may appeal and fight...
...blends earnest depiction of working-class culture, subtle glimpses of the corrosive effect of crime on victims and perpetrators, a doomed romance between a miner and a police official's college teacher wife, a series of comic set pieces starring the official's bullying superior, and a whole slew of secrets unwisely unearthed. The daring mingling of genres works rather better than the cluttered plot. Most memorable are the scenes of the central character, a wilder version of the bright boy who is the schoolteacher's beneficiary in The Corn Is Green. Even in this messy story, those passages could...