Rick Anderson
Rick Anderson
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We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.
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Where I would have thought this was 30-70 or 40-60 a few weeks ago, my guess is it feels more like 50-50 now, which is not just a number but a trend line.
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Yes, for most people the spring stats can fool you. But watching the way he's throwing the ball, he's backed off and pitched, not thrown. He's more letting the pitches work for him and letting the ball move for him and locating. He's not trying to overthrow or overpower hitters, but just make his pitches and have them put the ball in play.
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Tim told me that the car had to be done by July 2 for John's class reunion. That gave me 47 calendar days to restore the car from bare frame to a completed car. Let me tell you, there were days that I didn't think it was going to happen.
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They're looking forward to the challenge Saturday. We'll give it our best shot.
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Alice ... girls' night out, set in the audience of a Chippendale dancers performance.
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There were many days that I worked late into the night to get that car finished in time, ... but at 5 p.m. on July 1, the car was started, tuned, and John drove it home. We had worked over 480 man-hours, but it was all worth it to see the smile on John's face. To work on a car like this is a dream.
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There may be some pressure for him to come back. The result wasn't quite as negative as seemed to be likely, and maybe he moved a little bit hastily.
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This is happening all across the state, and there are a lot of people ending up with criminal records,
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Coming up here, it was pretty quiet. You're just sitting there and thinking how unfair the whole situation is.
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The names reflect the Australian character. We're fairly relaxed and down to earth. We have the ability not to take ourselves to seriously as an advantage. We're competitive in business and sporting arenas, but we also like to enjoy life and not get bogged down in the rhetoric of wine snobbery.
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This guy's got great stuff. It's just a matter of commanding it. We've always thought he's nasty. I watch him in the pen, and I say, 'Wow!' At 28, a lot of guys hit their prime.
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I thought some of their hits just made it through the infield.
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John had kept the car garaged most of the time, but as with most Model A's, the floor pans and lower three inches of the body were rusted beyond repair and had to be replaced. My brother, Mike, helped me to restore the car as well. He stripped the entire car to bare metal, and then I welded in 13 different body panels to replace the rotted areas. Being 75 years old, the car had many dings and dents that had to be straightened.