Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People can also supplement their main course with items from the salad bar," Eisert says. "And Dale (Hennssey) seems to think they're pretty nutritionally sound...
...enough for New York Yacht Club members when they lost the America's Cup in 1983 on Rhode Island Sound. The longest winning streak in sport history--132 years--was ended, and with Australia II's secret keel, the victors from down under had audaciously out-teched the Yanks. But what really steamed some of the bluer-blooded Newport yachting crowd was when the winning skipper, John Bertrand, taunted during the races that the next Cup competition would be sailed out of the mostly working-class port of Fremantle in the sun- drenched Indian Ocean. "It's absolutely glorious...
...companies have devised methods of sealing the individual capsules to make them tamper resistant. Eli Lilly has developed a tiny belt of gelatin that binds, like a piece of tape, the top and bottom halves and makes it difficult to open a capsule without tearing it. Sterling Drug uses sound waves to create a kind of spot-weld on capsules of its Panadol pain reliever. Johnson & Johnson says that it too studied new methods of sealing capsules but decided that none was completely secure...
...ocean. It requires only the intercession of a third party, the creatures' keeper, to bring them together. Thereafter, Turtle Diary casts its spell mainly through its refusals. The heist proceeds without hitch or Hitchcockian suspense. There is not a single sentimental or anthropomorphic word, nor does anyone utter a sound about endangered species or ecological morality. William and Neaera do not fall in love as a result of their shared adventure. Each remobilizes sexually in surprising ways...
...might talk to the feds. Their fears were well-founded; the following year Hill's testimony resulted in a string of convictions. The canary later sang to Nicholas Pileggi, a veteran journalist, in various secret locations around the U.S. The result, told largely in Hill's words, has the sound and horror of authenticity, The Godfather minus the glamour. There is no rich, family feeling here, no accretion of loyalties and vendettas. There is only the nostalgia of a successful sociopath for a lawless past. "Truckloads of swag. Fur coats, televisions, clothes--all for the asking," the thug recalls. "When...