Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy O'Neill said yesterday that his office hopes the grand jury will hand down an indictment against Daris J. Davis, one of two men suspected in the case, by tomorrow...
...Yanks, on the other hand, expect to win. Their fans, as Roger Angell says, think championships are their due. That's called pride. We don't moan at mid-season, "We're winning now, but it'll go down the tubes by September." That's called self-pity...
Ormandy's hand-picked successor as music director will have an equally short season. Riccardo Muti, 38, will divide his time between Philadelphia and other posts in London and Florence, a trend among the newer generation of conductors that Ormandy laments. "These jet-set conductors, they jump from one place to another," he says. "At the end, they don't have their own children, their musical children. I belong to the school where you are married to only one orchestra and you live with it 24 hours...
With $18,000 from a second mortgage on his house, a few hand tools, and his wife as bookkeeper, Robert Ozuna in 1967 founded an electrical contracting firm in his garage. Today his New Bedford Panoramex Corp. of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., occupies an 18,000-sq.-ft. building, employs 41 people and expects 1980 sales of $3.5 million. Ozuna assembles the instrument panels that monitor nuclear plants, oil drilling rigs and other high-technology hardware. Firms working the Alaskan oil pipeline use his products. With their dazzling displays of dials and switches, the panels look like something...
...essays collected here were all prompted by the same circumstances: a book to review and a deadline. No one can rise to such occasional pieces better than Author V.S. Pritchett. It does not matter whether the subject at hand is a biography or a novel, a collection of short stories or of essays. Pritchett brings to them all the eye of a craftsman (he has written in these forms himself) and the .sympathy of an incurable reader. He is generous, to a virtue...