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...silence the mills once and for all, and drive at least 9,000 jobs into extinction. Environmentalists believe that may be a price worth paying for preservation -- not just of the 14-in. owl but also of the 300-ft.-high Douglas firs, the western hemlock and the Sitka spruce that predate Columbus' arrival...
Such alliances could help Daimler-Benz spruce up its consumer-electronics group and afford entry to Japan's domestic markets. Mitsubishi would position itself for 1992's united European market and, with access to Daimler aircraft technology, might enter the commercial aircraft field -- a dream come true for the Japanese but a nightmare for Boeing...
...black Stinson Reliant of fabric and spruce rests on the floor, seemingly poised for takeoff. You took your first flight in one of those graceful monoplanes in 1935. The last of the barnstormers out of Omaha had dropped in on a harvested alfalfa field. For $l.50 you rumbled through the stubble and jolted off into the air, choked with awe and fear. Above the old town, you could see the high school and your home and beyond them the vast, quilted cropland. Your world and the way you looked at it changed forever. The pilot, casual in his open, checked...
Theoretically, the money my dorm neighbors pay to the fund will someday pay to spruce up the paint in Hollis, fix a door hinge in Grays, or repair the hole in the ceiling of Matthews Hall...
...FABULOUS BAKER BOYS. A piano duo, stranded between anonymity and unemployment, needs a sexy vocalist to spruce up the act. Good career move; bad for the boys. Jeff and Beau Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer are better than fabulous in this wry, rare comedy of character...