Sentences with phrase «by old timer»

A well written essay by an old timer who could have once been a sparky or a plumber then got smart with early computers hence that IEEE tag.

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The familiar name given the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, established by the government of Alberta in 1976 to handle massive provincial surpluses resulting from what old - timers called «the energy crisis.»

When newly appointed Online Marketing Manager, Ben, asks old - timer Ned how much selling has changed, he's surprised by Ned's answer, «Not much.»

President Obama, get your FL surrogates to get those old timers some cookies and soft drinks and you win FL by a landslide, don't let Romney beat you to it!

This book, which on its face seems to have been motivated by the old - timer's urge to reminisce by means of the biographical genre, is actually a fine work of history, and in the end its author is unafraid to suggest that the work of history is itself an enterprise of devotion, a kind of spiritual work.

City looks strong not because of transfers, but rather the solid start by the old - timers.

Two weeks before their Old - Timers» Day loss to the Dodgers, the Mets were no - hit by Sandy Koufax in Los Angeles.

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The one shared by the Albany old - timers — the lawmakers and lobbyists who've been around long enough to know that governors don't win budget battles but survive them — is that Paterson doesn't have one.

Old Timer's Day Held for Legends of Graffiti by David Greene More than 100 graffiti artists from several states converged on a street in the Allerton section to pay homage to the founders of modern day graffiti.

By the time I graduated in 1986, it seemed likely that the old - timers who understood only markets would not survive because they could not do physics.

The program started in 1980 on radio then in 1983 on television as a 3 - minute block timer on Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation with a Ang Dating Daan (Tagalog for The Old Path) is a religious radio and television program in the Philippines produced by the Members of the Church of God

Authorities say a 26 - year - old man is in custody and being treated for minor injuries suffered when he was hit by a bean bag round fired by S... Fuck Tube - is equally good for first - timers and sex experts.

Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

He is taken under the wing of Camel, the old timer played well by silky - voiced Jim Norton.

Lean On Pete is the name of one of the horses trained by Del (Buscemi), an ornery old - timer who uses every ruse he can to turn a buck.

(The hotel changed names, to the DoubleTree by Hilton, a couple years ago — but old - timers will always know it as The Yarrow, just as the Fresh Market will always be Albertson's.)

Telluride Film Festival There is a moment maybe three quarters into John Hillcoat's «The Road» when it becomes clear that atmosphere may have been preferred over characterization: Viggo Mortensen's character — known simply as «The Man» in Cormac McCarthy's original fiction and nameless here — sits by a fire, wary of a cataracts - ridden old - timer (Robert -LSB-...]

Severely disfigured facially, plagued by blinding migraines, and subjected to power grabs by the board of seven old timers whose disdain for him is an open secret, David finds himself relaying his unbelievable story to a psychologist (Kurt Russell) from prison, about to stand trial for murder.

The crew hits every demographic for today's all - embracive audience: the workaholic team leader (Josh Brolin), the wisecracking heartthrob (Ryan Gosling), the experienced old - timer (Robert Patrick), the soft - spoken Latino (Michael Pena), the switchblade - wielding black cop (Anthony Mackie) and the morally torn egghead (Giovanni Ribisi) who absurdly asks how they're any better than the mobsters they're fighting (I'm not sure how bugging Cohen's living room remotely compares to Cohen having rivals physically torn in half by two cars, but maybe that's just me).

To old timers this may call to mind the effort by New American Schools to redesign schools.

writes about a restored example / Supercharged BNC — A French cyclecar that grew into a full blown racer / «Stop me and try one» — The restoration of an ice cream van by Peter Davis / Alvis speed 20 — The Editor drives an early example / Michelse Old - timer Rally — Malcolm Elder enjoyed himself in Belgium / Bentleys (and others) at Silverstone — Tom Threlfall reports on the BDC race meeting / Alvis 12/50 Register — 40 years on Michael Brisby attended the 40th anniversary / The Duesenberg macot — Gordon Beuhrig recalls how he designed it / Paris to Rouen Run — Ron Dean took his boat - tailed Rolls Royce / Australia's Bay to Birdwood Run 1.600 entries!

OK, the old - timers are one thing, but I am especially flummoxed by second -, third - and fourth - generation dealers who continue the control / negotiation approach when they must know they are out of step with what today's consumers look for when they shop: transparency, speed, simplicity, fairness and the customer in control.

At one point, we were side by side with Roger Penske and Mario Illien, and we shouted to one another like it was old home week and joked about Mario's array of high - tech timers stuck across the dash on the passenger's side that he was using to negotiate the strictly timed portions of the rally.

While much of the demand for these 20 year old used cars comes directly from the sideways sport of drifting, and it's that same activity fueled by eager first timers that has led to a scarcity of clean examples.

(Old - timers like me remember they did import some front wheel drive minicars from Mitsubishi, but were forced by UAW lobbying to build the unprofitable Omni / Horizon here in North America).

The cat needs to be introduced to, and accepted by, any resident cats, so that the newcomer won't be driven away by the old - timers.

Los Angeles, Calif. — A female old - timer was captured on video by Denise Santiago Jones, who travels to the shelter several times a week to help save animals who wait and languish at the North Central Animal Shelter in Los Angeles, Calif..

This first standard was simple and was based on the descriptions of the Presa provided by old - timers who knew the dogs in the Canary Islands plus some specific dimensions - size and weight — based on the author's first Presa (a dog named Boby).

This classification theory is generally supported by historical accounts that mirror the one offered by Phyllis Archdale who went to Southern Africa in 1919 and bred ridgebacks there in the 1920s, «Old timers told me that in early days most Dutch transport riders had a Ridgehound as guard to their wagons.

im really glad to here some real truth to this artical on pit bulls they are great dogs, ive had pure colby lines.bullyson, carver, n many more, these are great n loving dogs bred by people who knew how to breed.the old timers knew what they had, you never heard of pit bulls attacking or killing humans until the 80s when punks, gangs n people that have no idea of what they got.i do nt like dog fighting but at the same time i must say this GAME BRED PITBULLS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING AGGERSIVE TOWARDS HUMANS that is such false information.

Finally, for us old - timers, the internal box filter, driven by air, is available if you search long and hard enough — you may have to search the Internet to find a supplier.

Some of the levels seem like they have been created by someone who has modded an older game to make it 1000x harder (like modders usually do), but all levels are doable with a bit of patience and time as Epic Dumpster Bear has no timers in the main game, so there is no rush.

Basically, rockstar makes a map to show the «whereabouts» (giving a near by point but not exact point) to show where some old timer buried his treasures from his pesky neighbors.

If Sonic (and Mario, to a lesser extent) ceased to exist, we old - timers might be melancholy, but the younger generation would get by just fine on Minecraft and, er, whatever else kids play.

Typically, the show is either the story of two friends and colleagues, or an old - timer admired by someone younger, or artists from different countries and / or cultures sharing much in common.

When Yoshio Taniguchi's renovation of the museum was unveiled in 2004, old - timers were shocked to see Monet's waterlilies dwarfed — some would say crushed — by the atrium's six - story height.

Old - timers are unfazed by global warming or cooling.

Old timers in the bond and mortgage business were replaced by pointy headed MBA's and modelers with little understanding of how markets really work.

That may be so old timer, but some of us have been around long enough to know that ounce of prevention is worth a metric ton of remediation, and understand that your work is for the most part a result of bad decisions by these so called experts which have resulted in easily preventable environmental catastrophes, many of them large scale and ongoing.

For instance, old timers remember the devastation done by Hurricane Hugo in 1989.

Most Windows old - timers do it the hard way, by opening Network and Sharing Center (click, click, click), finding the list of network adapters (click), and then looking at the details for each adapter (click, click, click).

I think we (especially the old - timers) really love your down - to - earth yet very professional approach... a method of working with the members that's been lost by many of the other groups.

It was a fairly young firm even though run by old - timers which did fold shortly after I left, the reasons for which are debatable.

He said the baby boomer generation launched the casual - dress movement, followed by Generation X, which, during the halcyon days of Silicon Valley, pushed the envelope even further, wearing flip - flops to board meetings and generally confounding the old - timers in suits.

Steve Murray sometimes gets together with other old - timers in the real estate industry, shares some wine and inevitably gets around to remarking, «I sure would've thought it would've changed more by now.»