Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, many baseball players are very good. Andre Dawson would be a bona fide superstar if it weren't for Don Mattingly and Wade Boggs. Dawson knows that even if he hits 30 home runs, he'll still be only one of many excellent players...
...business like any big-city firm until after World War II. In 1948, son Ted joined his father and came up with the idea to seek business in the hinterlands. "There were a whole lot of farmers, storekeepers and small- town professionals out there that brokers weren't calling on," recalls Ted Jones, 61, now the firm's senior partner. In 1955, Jones opened its first branch office over the Woolworth's in Mexico, Mo. After growing slowly at first, the company has almost exploded in recent years. A decade ago Jones had revenues of only $12 million. Last year...
...capitalize on the fascination. At a Young Republicans' convention in Seattle, Joel Shelton sold out his 20 $4 Oliver North buttons (LT. COL. OLIVER NORTH -- ANAMERICAN HERO -- DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY) in an hour. "And when I ran out of them," he says, "people seemed kind of angry that there weren't more." A Washington rock-'n'-roll band released a song to the tune of Johnny B. Goode called Ollie Be Good. Sample lyrics...
...encountered defective cases, the machine would drop them, causing thousands of dollars in damage. Eventually the robot was donated to a local university and replaced by three humans. Says Warren Helmer, the company's manager of engineering research and development: "Campbell's was ready for robots, but robots weren't ready for Campbell...
...They weren't. Most of the shots on Firing Line were blanks. The Somber Seven were all painfully earnest, briefing-book glib and unfailingly polite. But the few issue differences that emerged (primarily on trade and oil-import fees) were introduced almost apologetically with phrases like "with all due respect." Jesse Jackson and Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, the orators of the group, seemed to believe that flights of rhetoric would be unseemly at such a high-tone forum. Two of the technocratic moderates in the race, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., were largely content...