Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union has not given up the ghost, however, and announced the filing of an anti-trust suit against the league. Given it is a league in which most players last no more than two seasons and earn salaries far below the astronomical sums awarded to the league's stars, and in which the owners deny all of them even the chance to strike the best deal they can while they can, it is clear where our sympathies should...
...piloting NASA's specially equipped ER- 2 high-altitude research aircraft is not for the fainthearted. The three pilots who flew the twelve solo missions through the Antarctic ozone hole found the task grueling. An hour before zooming into the stratosphere, each had to don a bright orange pressure suit and begin breathing pure oxygen to remove nitrogen from the blood and tissues, thus preventing the bends, which can result from rapid reductions in air pressure. Once airborne, "you have to have patience," says Pilot Ron Williams, who flew the first mission. "You're strapped into a seat...
Intentional homage, subconscious emulation or calculated rip-off? For Selle's suit against the Bee Gees, four bars of the two scores were blown up to display a suspiciously exact correspondence of notes; on the witness stand, even Bee Gee Maurice Gibb couldn't tell the two songs apart. The similarities between Herman's song and David's consisted of an identical series of ten intervals. And My Sweet Lord really does sound very much like He's So Fine, in melody and rhythm...
Garbed in a newly-acquired suit, Atlas last night bridged the world of the literary elite and Harvard. Atlas, who after graduation went to Oxford for two years on a Rhodes scholarship, has recently accepted an editorial position with the New York Times Magazine and says that the litertary life is nothing like what he expected as an undergraduate...
...White House hoped that Heflin could help the President save face on the Judiciary Committee. But with Specter going against Bork and undecided Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini expected to follow suit, even a pro-Bork vote by Heflin at this stage would probably mean nothing more than an 8-to-6 defeat for the nominee rather than a 9-to-5 loss...