Word: starts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, players have wanted to take some time off after the season, but this year, we all wanted to start playing right away," Reilly said. "We do expect to win next year. We don't want to look back and say we should have done something differently...
Liberals need not abandon principled stands on flag-burning, school prayer and capital punishment to win these voters. They only have to take rural concerns--and rural voters--seriously. To start, liberals must take a credible stand against crime and abandon their contempt for people who believe that there is honor in serving God and country...
Things aren't always so easy, of course. My roommates and I are not always on exactly the same wavelength. It so happens that the pause between rings is exceedingly long in our room. Thus, I often pick up the receiver toward the start of the third pause and am already engrossed in conversation when one of my roommates gets around to answering the phone at what they mistakenly think is the tail end of the long-gone pause. In such cases, a "Hello?" suddenly punctuates my discourse, and I usually decide it's easier to say I'm schizophrenic...
...industry cools off, entrepreneurs are no longer so eager to enter the business and can no longer so readily get financing. Many venture capitalists are shunning computer companies, largely because of mounting losses on recent start-ups. Says Houston venture capitalist Edward Williams: "Compaq and Apple -- those opportunities in hardware have come and gone. It's too risky at the moment. It's an industry that's maturing." Adds Sematech's Noyce: "Nobody's going to be very interested when the last people in it got stung." According to Venture Economics, a market-research firm, the number of computer-hardware...
...From the start, scientists had a firm answer to the question uppermost in every Californian's mind: the earthquake that hit San Francisco last week was not the long-feared Big One. While it packed a punch, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale,* the 1906 earthquake was 25 times as strong, at 8.3. Warns Dallas Peck, director of the U.S. Geological Survey: "The question is not whether a bigger earthquake is coming. The question is when...