Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There have even been obscene phone call experts who memorize the numbers of adjacent phone booths in the halls and ring up when a woman enters. Such incidents are often not reported. Comments veteran Library Security Officer Sivert Olenius: "We can't do a thing unless the person presses charges." Hardly anybody has the time, or the stomach...
...successfully is not an easy task. But we'll do the best we can." Carter also went out of his way to say that the Soviets were lying about the nature of the troops, an accusation he had made earlier-in private-to Congressmen. Declared the President: "The thing that concerns us is that it is a combat unit. The Soviets deny it has combat status. But it is a combat unit...
...that if you buy a company, you buy its management and its future. And our management and our future products are Class A. Would we talk? Sure we would. Everybody's welcome. Why hasn't anybody asked? You never do anything until the smoke clears. The first thing we have to show them is that we know how to stop the losses...
Evita is a spectacular eye-catcher, but it seldom gets a grip on a playgoer's feelings. For one thing, the basic tale has been too oft told. It is the familiar show-biz saga of a nobody from nowhere who, through wile and gumption, achieves wealth, fame and glory as a dazzling superstar. In the case of Evita, this tale has been telescoped and occasionally tampered with. Most of the key events happen offstage. They are described in song and dance and recitative, but not dramatically rendered, so the musical lacks the warming pulse of intimacy...
...smart money says the Angels are a flawed team: too many injuries, no shortstop, little speed, middling defense. Still, the offense can erupt against any pitcher. Says Slugger Baylor: "We put a lot of sixes and sevens on the Scoreboard." One thing the Angels do have is the peppy slogan required of all Cinderella teams. For the 1969 Mets it was "You gotta believe"; for the 1979 Angels, "Yes, we can." After last week's clincher, Manager Jim Fregosi unveiled a T shirt with the inevitable updating: YES, WE DID. If the team can say that...