Word: wiring
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Jennifer Burton and Peter Howard stand out with consistently solid performances as the landlady and her homosexual tuberculoid tenant. As Mrs. Wire, Burton masterfully shows the despair of a woman losing much of what she once had, including her sanity. Howard's despair, though, is that of someone striving for what he can' never have. Howard brings a strong sense of understanding and sympathy which elicits more than just the typical--and perhaps automatic--pity...
Similarly, while the wire-service polls have shown peculiarities before, Boston College's persistent presence during three idle weeks was extraordinary. By the chilly calculations of the New York Times computer, the Eagles soared from 19th to fifth on the wing of one victory over Temple, as Quarterback and leading Heisman Trophy Candidate Doug Flutie grew in stature but stayed...
...much the substance of his words as his voice, an instrument that tended to reduce his strongest convictions to a whine. Maybe it was the upper Midwest talking, the boyhood as a Norwegian minister's son. In the vibrations of his voice, like wind through fence wire on a gray day, one heard the coming of a Minnesota winter...
...said there were still questions about whether wire transfer charges are considered exempt. A new bill might also eliminate only maintenance fees, said Graham...
...strict import quotas, Reagan turned down the recommendations of the U.S. International Trade Commission. It said in July that the domestic industry was being damaged by imports and urged a five-year program of high tariffs and quotas for such important products as sheet and strip steel, plate and wire. Reagan would have none of it. Quotas, he said, would do more harm than good to the economy and not "be in the national interest," even though they might temporarily save some jobs in steel. Voluntary restraints seemed to be the only workable...