Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spin-off should make it easier for each company to satisfy its own considerable capital needs. Said Munro: "At the moment, we inevitably have a continuing tug-of-war between widely different needs that have to be evaluated from distinctly different perspectives...
Douglas Spindler and Veronica Jordan founded their own computer supply company and less than a year later Spin-Tronics, Inc. may be the fastest growing company in the San Francisco area...
...practice of poetic improvisation. Its key character, Rozanov, a Soviet poet and a scoundrel, has mastered the art of making up a story or a poem when presented with a subject by someone in his audience. The theme of Rozanov's current improvisation is-improvisations. He proceeds to spin out tales about other poets who then go on to invent tales of their own. The effect resembles a garishly colored Russian matryoshka: wooden dolls within wooden dolls...
...spin my head and my glasses go flying off. I think. "There go my glasses." I can't see, but I don't even slow down. The police are a few steps behind us. Some of the girls, who aren't as fast, are getting caught...
...enchanting apparition of the spring is Masanori ("Mashi") Murakami, a Japanese lefthander who mystically reappeared with the San Francisco Giants. Mashi has more English now than the all-purpose phrase "Take a hike," taught to him by his San Francisco teammates in 1965, the year of his short, happy spin through American baseball, when his record was 4-1. Patriotism required Murakami's presence in Japan all the seasons since, but now he is back in a cactus camp, no more inclined to take a hike than his former teammate Perry, and no older than Seaver...