Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another hour goes by. Each time the colt strikes, kicks and bites. Finally, the horse allows Ray's hand to touch his neck, though later, as Ray puts the saddle on, he strikes out with a front leg. After a long three-hour session with this one horse, Ray turns to us and says quietly, "You have to look inside the animal to see where the harmony is. It's not a miracle. It's just there, and you have to bring...
...earlier police raids the haul included 89 captured rocks of cocaine, eleven packs of heroin, a dinner plate used for dope cutting -- and three beepers. Such inventories highlight a trend that authorities are noticing around the country: the telephone beeper or pager, long used as a stay-in-touch device by doctors, plumbers and electricians, is now the gadget of choice for the dope industry as well. "Beepers," says Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Curtis Hazell, "are the single most common tool of the drug trade...
Inexpensive ($10 to $60 monthly to lease), easy-to-acquire beeper services allow street-smart drug dealers to keep in touch by public telephone. By staying mobile, dealers can remain one step ahead of the police or rivals who might be hunting for them. These days, with drugs moving by land, sea and air, the paging device is likely to turn up anywhere. "It's not uncommon for pagers to wash up onshore," concedes Ann Director of the Telocator Network of America, the Washington trade association that represents radio common carriers. Nor is it that unusual for beepers...
...perhaps Epps has simply made an innocent mistake. After all, even deans can, on occasion, be out of touch with student sentiment. There is little reason to give him that much credit, however. The invitations have not yet been mailed and Epps is perfectly capable of changing his mind and holding a lottery for the tickets. Instead, he insists that there is no time to make this change. Why it takes more time to run names through a computer than it does to search through students' resumes is anyone's guess...
...smiling, and in her smile--as in her touch--there was a blessing. It was, after all, all right...