Word: waites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until 1985, Robertson, "blessed with the opportunity to shut up when I have nothing to say," was . . . well, counting his blessings. "I wanted to feel like I couldn't wait to make music, rather than regarding it as a chore," he says. "I knew that if I spoke with all my heart, it would be better for everyone." The writing started tentatively at first ("It was like getting used to the water again"), but, after a time, sounds he heard and stories he suddenly had to tell "came into the open. It was a good feeling. Then I was gone...
...Since the stock-market crash, mortgage rates have dipped to just below 11%, but that does not guarantee a quick recovery in the housing market. One reason, aside from the fact that many potential customers suffered big paper losses in the market meltdown: skittish home buyers may wait to see if a recession starts, and mortgage rates go down further, before deciding whether to go after their dream house...
...proposal, not an ultimatum." Wright found the details patchy, but felt that they had "elements of good faith" for both sides. Publicly, the Reagan Administration was unwilling to rush to judgment. "We don't really know what's in this Ortega-Wright plan, and we just have to wait and see what they're talking about," said Fitzwater. Privately, officials denounced the scheme. "It sounds a lot like the Sandinistas' old unilateral cease-fire," said a naysayer at State. Although Contra Leader Adolfo Calero shot down Ortega's call for the rebels to disarm, the contras seemed to withhold judgment...
...paid us to ride and stay in shape," says Colonel James Spurrier, president of the U.S. Horse Cavalry Association. He sounds wistful. A first lieutenant's pay was $125 a month, good money in those days. A pair of English boots cost $110, Polk remembers, but the shop "would wait six months before sending you a letter saying 'We note that you are slightly overdue . . .' I bought a pair of tank boots in London during the war, and they said, 'Oh, we have your measure, Master Polk.' I guess I looked young." Polk's eyes flick back 45 years...
...above sea level and speaking with the Yiddish locutions of an immigrant who just completed a course in English. By mail. His targets are ecumenical. On Jews and Christians: "You show a gentile carrots and peas, he eats carrots and peas. You show a Jew carrots and peas: 'Wait a minute. Why are there so many carrots compared to the peas?' " Television weather persons: "You're dying to know if it's hot or cold, and instead they give you percentages. Eighty percent chance of rain, 30% chance of a cloud . . . What, are you going...