Word: spun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inner-city left in Duncan. He talks with a thick accent, and his play is littered with flamboyant, dipsy-do, touches. Against Brown last month, Duncan, caught up in the air with his back to the basket, hurled a shot off the top corner of the backboard which spun into the net. Duncan ran downcourt with a completely straight face--you never admit luck on the playground...
...well over half of the names on the FORTUNE list of the 1,000 largest U.S. corporations have undergone some form of significant reorganization. Gulf & Western in the past four years has spun off some 65 diverse subsidiaries worth more than $4 billion. IBM has closed three domestic plants, cut back on employee overtime, and is reducing its U.S. work force 7%, to 225,000, through attrition and early retirement incentives. AT&T last year cut 32,000 out of a work force of 322,000, in an effort to save $1 billion annually. Among the jobs lost were...
...refs for that game were from Hockey East, a conference which would dearly love to erase the stigma of being an expansion league spun off from the larger ECAC. The Crimson may have grounds for complaint on the ref issue, though on the other hand all the striped-shirts for the Northeastern contest in the Beanpot opener were from the ECAC...
...guys stuck here, huh? Want to get back to Taxachusetts? We got a van. Give you a ride." Apprehensively, not yet aware of our savior's religious affiliation, we climbed into their vehicle. Rapid us vs. homocidalslashers calculations spun through my head as the doors clicked shut. Soon, however, I realized that it was my soul, and not my body, that was in danger...
...images and words." This is modish nonsense. What becomes more obvious with each passing year of postmodernism is that art's relation to mass media has become an aesthetic blind alley and that only an enhanced sense of the world's concreteness -- opposing the flimflam of manipulation that gets spun about it -- is likely to redeem the discourse of painting...