Word: touchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew about the music business, and that included the people who ran the business." The speaker is Tom Rush, a folk singer, acoustic-guitar operator and onetime rambling man with some mileage on him. Just now, like other New Hampshiremen in Mud Season, he feels entitled to be a touch grouchy. There was plenty of snow for cross- country skiing this winter on the logging roads around his big hillside house, but the maple-syrup season was no damned good at all, and then outrageous rains flooded nearby roads so that Keene and Concord were just about unreachable. Blackfly season...
...consortium is funded by publicly and privately owned aircraft builders in France, Britain, West Germany and Spain. But it did not sell a single jet to a U.S. airline for seven years. Says Robert Kugel, an aerospace analyst at the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "U.S. carriers wouldn't touch European airliners with a ten-foot pole. They had a reputation for poor quality and maintenance." That perception gradually changed. By 1987 some 360 of the medium-range A300 (up to 375 passengers) and the A310 (250 passengers) were flying under the banners of 58 airlines around the world, including such...
Although it will not be a priority, the forummay also touch on the council's recent CoreCurriculum report, which calls for the abolitionof the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, anincrease in courses offered in the Core, and theaddition of a mathematics and computer Science Cselection to allow students to bypass Science...
...English didn't realize that government was the biggest business in the country," says Helen Suzman, with a touch of exaggeration and a touch of bitterness. Now entering her 34th year as an opposition M.P. (for some of that time the only one), she is among the leaders of the English-speaking minority. Other well-known members tend to pursue different lines of work: Golfer Gary Player, Novelist Nadine Gordimer, Dancer Juliet Prowse, Tennis Player Kevin Curren. "And then the English were just outnumbered by the Afrikaners," Suzman adds, "especially in the civil service...
...final touch Costello directed the wheel toland on the title "Pump It Up" for the show's lastsong...