Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Scratch a critic and you'll get an admission that Schwarzenegger's films have the quality of ferocity. There is something in Arnold that sparks the pinwheeling imaginations of action directors. They get him to lift trucks, carry huge trees on his shoulder, upend telephone booths with little punks inside. In Mark L. Lester's puckishly violent Commando, he righteously kills dozens of people in his determination to save a single life; as one helpful woman observes of Arnold and his adversaries, "These guys eat too much red meat." John McTiernan's Predator (1987) twists another commando genre into...
JESSE JACKSON (even money). Had trouble staying off outside post in last few starts. Welcome wearing very thin. May well scratch. Trainers say he'll concentrate on D.C. statehood stakes...
...believe that the big telecommunications firm will ultimately prevail, strengthening NCR in the long run. Says Maria Lewis of Shearson Lehman Bros.: "AT&T would make an ideal corporate parent." Still, the deal carries enormous financial risks for AT&T, which had tried to build a computer business from scratch, avoiding large acquisitions. "AT&T will triumph, but it may be a Pyrrhic victory," says John McCarthy, an analyst at Forrester Research. "It's buying itself a land mine of problems...
...that time, Harvard Co-Captain Ralph James, who was a last-minute scratch last night due to a shoulder injury sustained Saturday against Vermont, might be ready for action...
...Yasuto Mizoguchi, president of Volkswagen Asia, "European automobile quality has always been recognized in Japan." The strong yen has helped bring prices within reach, but the European success is mainly due to hard work and heavy investment. BMW has gone furthest in putting down roots. It has built from scratch its own network of 120 dealerships and committed serious money to a big spare-parts center. At its vehicle-preparation facility, the imports are tuned and polished to the perfection that the finicky Japanese buyer demands. Says Hans-Peter Sonnenborn, president of BMW Japan: "Japanese customers are extremely image-, service...