Word: sparrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainly a rhythm and blues, pop band, but we can definitely rock and party when we have to," said David Alves, lead singer of the band and a Union employee from 1980-86. Other members include co-founder Ken Sparrow and Frank Rousseau, both of whom have worked for Food Services...
...plans, legal fees and so on, but there had to be protracted negotiations with the city parks department and the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. and the New York Public Library (which adjoins the park) and all the private watchdog groups that doggedly keep watch over the fall of every sparrow. After nearly four years of effort and expense, with no actual building begun and no end in sight, LeRoy this spring abandoned the whole project. "The process has so many hands in it that it is terribly hard to do without being reduced to mediocrity," said LeRoy...
...billion. In 1985 alone, $2.3 billion worth of defense-related business went to Raytheon, based in the Boston suburb of Lexington, where the shots heard round the world were fired. The ammunition they are firing today is more sophisticated: Patriot and Hawk air defense missiles for the Army, Sparrow air-to-air missiles for the Navy...
...small, lizard-like reptiles whose only living relative is the tuatara of New Zealand; yard-long crocodiles with spindly legs, a whiplike tail and a sleek body that Olsen calls "the cheetahs of their time"; a trail of penny-size footprints left by a dinosaur no bigger than a sparrow...
...career student from Maidstone, England, recently developed a new fingerprint coding method for the FBI in his spare time. Malcolm K. Sparrow, a British police officer whose hobby is working with fingerprints, says he hopes the program will help him prepare for his new appointment as Chief Inspector, and move him closer to his ultimate goal of attaining the highest position in the force...