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...Investment Co., a huge real estate developer, attempted to demolish the Garden Court without a city permit last year because, as a C-D employee explained to the city council, "she was a beautiful old lady, but now she's gone. Someone has to pull the plug...
...blitzkrieg lecture on the ratings by a house expert ("Gimme a Break's sort of a joke, Taxi's O.K., fair, Devlin hasn't occurred yet, the long range is good for ABC . . .") and commendably noncommittal when the president of Showtime drops in to plug Romance, a spicy soap opera featuring dialogue ("I'm an actress, not a hooker") that could use a little less seasoning...
Within the CFIA, however. Swift has won unusual friendship and esteem from her colleagues One of the best liked fellows at the center. Swifts described variously as "warm and outgoing," "energetic" and "extremely intelligent," and one administrator called her "a spark plug member of the group...
...within the discipline. About half the articles quantitative sociologists publish would be difficult for a scholar trained in theory to follow, Davis says. The reverse is not true, he notes: "It isn't easy, but you don't need special training to read Marx, Weber and Durkheim. You just plug away...
...that the big social event of the year is a week-long series of sheep-dog trials, sheep-shearing contests, horse races and other bucolic competitions. Or that the only telephone line is a single strand on which the islanders not only eavesdrop but into which they even plug their radios for family entertainment. Legend has it that one vengeful curmudgeon attached the lone telephone wire to an electric power outlet and blew out the radios in the Falklands...