Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...House came right back, going 43 yards in seven plays to tie the score. A failure to move the ball on the ground forced Ryan to go to the air--and for once that strategy worked. Slater grabbed a pass on the end of a long curl pattern to put the Deacons at the 12, and two plays later Ryan lofted the ball over the defense into the arms of tight end Brian Jolley in the back of the endzone...
...Ohio, where all 200 employees wear the company's white overalls. But on May 16 a maintenance man decided to embellish the standard wardrobe with a United Auto Workers baseball cap. Plant officials promptly made him remove it and issued a flat ban on noncompany hats on the ground that allowing them would impair "the Honda working environment." Union buttons were forbidden too because they might damage production-line paintwork...
...more space than its rivals. The competitor that suffered most from P&G's push for Rely was Tampax, whose market share slid from 52% to 40% as Rely's grew. Playtex tampons, Kimberly-Clark's Kotex and Johnson & Johnson's o.b. also lost ground to Rely...
...decades of effort and 100,000 miles of travel into a four-part series on the American seasons, which culminated in 1965 with the Pulitzer-prizewinning Wandering Through Winter. In it he wrote: "Beneath fields of white and rivers of ice and in the hard and frozen ground, life was waiting, confident, un-despairing. Its activity was merely suspended. The stillness, the seeming death of winter, is but an illusion...
Most horror movies are of paper-plate disposability, piled high with ground round and too much ketchup. But class will tell, and Curtis has worked with the men at the head of the scare-picture class: John Carpenter, who directed her in both Halloween and The Fog, and Cinematographer John Alcott, who makes this toy locomotive of a film look as sleek and eerie as the ghost of the Twentieth Century Limited. Curtis brings her own class to the genre, though one wonders where her career will lead her next. Into an ominous shower stall? Like mother, like daughter, bless...