Word: turning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land Harvard owns that worries people, Brewer says. Instead, he points out, there is more tension surrounding what the University plans to do with land is acquires. Residents are worried that their Harvard-owned apartments may someday turn into offices, basketball courts or DNA labs...
...killings have taken place. By studying a footprint found near the body of one victim, the police have determined the suspect's shoe size. They may also have detected his blood type in a way that has not been disclosed. But so far the dragnet has failed to turn up the clue that will lead to the killer's capture...
Given rewards and penalties, free people will figure out the smartest ways to turn shortage into surfeit. If this sounds like the businessman's typical gospel, it also makes sense. Says McLaughlin: "Somehow, Government incentives must combine with the technical knowledge that business has to create an efficient partnership. I just don't know of any other solution...
...gimmick is that the animals have moved out of the frat house and into sum mer jobs as waiters in a resort hotel. The hotel is about as festive as Disney World in a hail storm; the characters are so familiar you can turn down the volume and speak their lines yourself. In addition to the two romantic leads (Larry Breeding and Stephanie Faracy), the kids include one fat social retard, one bookish wimp and one wealthy, lock-jawed Wasp. For added measure the writers have stirred in a cook who re-enacts John Belushi's samurai routine...
...wake up one morning and realize that you're about to turn 40. What do you do? In Middle Age Crazy Bruce Dern attempts to bury his anxiety pangs by buying a Porsche and having a one-nighter with a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Dern recovers his senses and goes home for an alcoholic reconciliation with Wife Ann-Margret in a 105° hot tub. That husband and wife keep their clothes on in the tub is understandable; they're probably worried about an R rating. But don't they know that too much booze...