Word: takings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...else on there with the idea that all these people are strongly involved with music itself for years and years and really involved in the industry, and most of the people they approached for the compilation have not done any studio work at all. So their idea was to take these people with good musical knowledge and see what would happen if they put them in the studio and let them create their own track from beginning to end, and that's what Torchbearers is. I had a great time doing it, and I am really impressed with the outcome...
...Resourceful students, however, employ many successful self-alerting techniques. Pierced students admit to pulling on their body jewelry to give themselves wakening jolts of pain. Those without piercings resort to more primitive measures: "I like to take my pen and just poke it into my arm sometimes," boasts Phil H. Chan...
...then ask me to let them in. I tell them that I can't go into somebody's room, because for me, that's breaking and entering. If you have his permission that's one thing. Otherwise, I say I'm sorry. You give them an inch, they take a mile," he says. "The worst thing about working here is that they sometimes like to bend things to their advantage or ask for something they're not supposed...
...lottery," Billy declares, "I'd probably pay off all the debt I have and take a nice trip to a warm climate. I'd stay for a while--at least a month--or until I ran out of options to do there. Say Aruba, or the Cayman Islands, but I'd have to be doing more than fishing and drinking in the beach. I like fishing...
...building here in Boston. What excites me is fighting for 15 or 20 minutes to land a 35 or 40 pounder, like I have done. Once I get them, though, I let them go. I'm not a killer. My family doesn't eat fish anyway. I take a picture, instead. I've got quite a selection of pictures." Billy hunts less successfully than he fishes. "I hunt sea duck," he said. "But if you ask me in ten years of hunting duck have I ever caught...