Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Campbell swap was unexpected because, even though the 1977 Heisman Trophy winner our of Texas had managed only 278 yards on 96 carries in six straight losses, he represented one of the Oilers' few offensive threats. And the Saints already owned several solid runners, led by George Rogers...
...dozen years ago, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois seemed an ideal presidential prospect. Gifted with patrician good looks and a rich, sonorous voice, Percy, by the end of his first Senate term in 1972, had earned a solid reputation as an independent-minded Republican in the progressive Rockefeller mold. But his star soon stopped soaring. A stodgy campaigner, he made a tentative presidential bid in 1976 and nearly lost his 1978 Senate race to a little-known Democrat, Attorney Alex Seith. Trying to keep pace with America's growing conservatism, Percy changed his stands on economic issues, foreign...
...market: green. Since copyrights have expired on thousands of old black-and-white movies, they can take out new copyrights on the colorized versions of the same films. Boasts Earl Click, chairman of Hal Roach Studios: "I could take 200 A-l pictures, colorize them, and turn them into solid gold." He estimates that a $30 million investment might yield a billion dollars in profit within 15 years...
...good performance. The kids had a whole lot to lose and not too much to gain. It was a nice, solid win," Coach Donald Usher said of his squad, ranked 18th in the nation...
Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret M. Heckler told a crowd of about 400 at a $125 per plate fundraising dinner that Massachusetts had become a one partly Democratic state like the old Solid South. "Let's bring the balance back by sending Ray Shamie to the senate in November," the former Massachusetts congressman said...