Word: spins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while spin doctors and their cousins the political commentators may deplore such capriciousness, they are directly responsible...
...album opens with "My Umbrella," a single which has gained substantial air-time on--you guessed it--alternative stations. The tune has the strong bass essential to alternative songs ranging from L7's "Pretend That We're Dead" to the Spin Doctors' "Two Princes," and features a catchy, somewhat inane, chorus: "Don't let your love/Fall on down on my umbrella." The guitar riffs are well executed if a tad typical, and singer Tim DeLaughter intones the lyrics with the prescribed amount of nasality. The song is entertaining, and "One Through Four" and "Blown Away" follow in the same vein...
SOUTHERN COMFORT ADS: Ads for the drink of choice of 4-by-4 owners are running in slick magazines like Elle and Spin and feature dreadlocked guys playing the saxophone. Next, Quaker State motor...
Pleading for the SSC before Congress, researchers like Lederman used the Ultimate Quest argument; others spoke of retaining America's leadership in science and technology, or of the jobs SSC would generate, or of practical spin-offs, including improvements in superconducting materials and computer software. Nonetheless, the project's super price tag -- originally estimated at $5 billion but up to $11 billion at last count -- was a perpetual and powerful counterargument. Specialists in other fields of science, and even different areas of physics, resented such largesse being heaped on a | relatively small number of researchers at a time of national...
...want to make decisions, you can't justcome down and spin records for two hours," hesays. "You need to come down and know the radiostation, and people who did make the decision didspend a lot of time there and had the right tomake a decision like this...