Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ODDLY LINKED to his Bicycle Thief, because most of Italy seems to move at the slow, wobbly pace produced by riding on two wheels, it is clear, as a sporty group of young people comes swooping by in the opening shot, that De Sica is dealing here with the upper-classes, not the population of Rome's slums. Upon the invitation of the Jewish-aristocrat Finzi-Continis, they are on their way to play tennis on the courts in the family's garden. As they pedal through the gates they leave the real world behind. True to the De Sica...
...penalty at 12:06, however, and it took B.U.'s power play only 12 seconds to turn the game around. B.U. captain John Danby took a good centering pass from Ron Anderson and popped home a 30 footer from the slot, beating partially screened Joe Bertagna to the upper right hand corner...
...power play found Elliott in the penalty box again early in the second period, and once again the Terriers wasted little time. Five seconds into the penalty, B.U. defenseman Ric Jordan took a pass from Danby and drove a point shot into the upper left hand corner of the Harvard net to make...
Fishwick, a former attorney, is a prudent cost cutter; he has trimmed by almost one-third the number of reports that executives file, thus saving $520,000 a year-the price of a pair of new locomotives. But he has not skimped on employee training. All upper-and middle-ranking employees must complete a one-week computer course, and all salesmen will take a one-week course taught by Psychological Associates, Inc., St. Louis consultants who claim to build "persuasive communications skills...
Most importantly, the honorific positions held by Kelso and Bruce are symptomatic of the basic strategy the Republican party has employed in its efforts to influence the black vote and continues. As Daniel Thompson notes in his 1963 study of the upper echelons of black society in New Orleans...