Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bertelsmann and Sony coming into our market and raising hell, and we see this ((merger)) as an opportunity for an American company to get competitive." In fact, Time Warner would vault ahead of the competition. Bertelsmann, whose annual revenues are nearly $7 billion, would fall to the No. 2 spot among the world's media companies...
...slough where pelicans and cormorants gather is called Klopp Lake. Mount Trashmore has evolved into a wildflower-rich meadow. Standing by his pond, Allen recalls that first day he and Gearheart tramped through the mud with the idea exploding in their minds. "We flushed a deer out of that spot," he says. "It seemed like a good omen." An uncommon one, at least...
This is not the hog-stomping, Bible-thumping, camp-meeting music that used to rattle the tent poles along the revival circuit. Consider these elliptical lyrics about being born again: "I never thought I would ever/ Spot a ray of hope in the residue . . . But this time I found a Gold Mine in You" (God, not a girlfriend). Even the sextet's gospel oldies are revamped with vocal pyrotechnics, improbable harmonies and sly humor. As it injects religion into the freewheeling jazz-soul world, Take 6 is loosening up staid Adventism. Just before the Grammys the group gave its first...
...deterred, police in Colorado this month will begin testing a new Star Wars-type speed trap that uses laser light to spot perpetrators. International Measurement & Control, the firm that developed the new device, claims its laser beams are not only invisible to radar detectors but unaffected by stealthy shields as well. Given the speedy pace of change, can antilaser systems be far behind...
While the rush hour crowd jockeys for seats on the commuter trains out of North Station tonight, the Saints and the Big Red will be jockeying next door in Boston Garden for a spot in the ECAC finals...