Computers invaded my life in 1985, when my mother, a master's student at UTEP, bought a RadioShack Tandy TRS-80 4P to pound out her thesis on the negative transfer of speech sounds from second to first language.
The classic sounds of Los Endos by Steve Hackett, formerly of Genesis, and Close to the Edge by Yes pound out from the stage as musicians who made their names selling millions of albums back in the 70s play in front of their adoring fans.
We thought we'd come and gone on the whole Apple-does-an-MVNO rumor thing that was buzzing around just prior to the ROKR E1's launch last September, but with Apple's enigmatic "Mobile Me" trademark filing hitting the the wires today, speculation is already re-cropping up that Apple's still working behind the scenes to pound out their own mobile virtual network operator.
The richest man in France has officially transferred his multi-billion pound fortune out of his homeland to Belgium.
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Mr. Victor had actually just returned from near Sarasota where he had built a 500-pound manatee out of butter.
With a short story, you know, it's something short enough you can just pound it out, you know, at a sitting or two.
These are made by injecting molten aluminum into 3, 000-pound molds made out of steel.
It was the night the pound was forced out of the ERM by its plunging value in the currency markets.
Such is baseball's modus operandi: Big-market teams with big TV contracts buy the best players and pound the stuffing out of poorer teams.
That is a bigger depreciation than the one that occurred after the pound was kicked out of the European exchange-rate mechanism in September 1992 and fell by 18%.
Siegel hypnotized Nelson as the 6-foot, 265-pound athlete stretched out on a bed at the Westin hotel in Long Beach on the day before his first big competition of the outdoor season.
"I had her take two 50-pound dumbbells and walk out to the street and walk back, " recalled Crawford.
Pound said a comprehensive out-of-competition dope-testing program was already in operation ahead of the Games which officially start with the opening ceremony on Friday.
Multi-million pound plans to roll out superfast broadband across Northamptonshire have moved a step closer after the county council appointed BT as its preferred supplier.
Heat guard Dwyane Wade didn't seem bothered that the 6-foot-8, 260-pound James chose to lash out.
Kevin Breslin, 54 years old in Rockaway Beach, said he bought 30 50-pound sandbags to keep water out of the basement of his beachfront home.
He pointed out that, pound-for-pound, British animation outsells film.
For those late-night shoppers hoping these devices would be the miracle ride to lean and mean, Hirsh has this dose of reality: " If you take diet out of the picture, to lose one pound of fat, the average (160-pound person) would need one to nine months" (of working out regularly) on almost all of the devices they tested.
When Gordon tips the scales a single pound too high, he cuts out whole meals, substituting a Carnation instant breakfast.
Gone, too, from the Orange lineup was 6-foot-9, 288-pound freshman forward Dajuan Coleman, out for a month after knee surgery.
As a taunt, the starving defenders sent out a 50-pound meat pie.
That winter, I even bought a twenty-pound log splitter and would go out in the backyard every morning and split wood until the sweat started steaming from my body like those horses in that Alfred Stieglitz photograph.
Both British Airways and Air France, the only airlines to fly Concordes, suspended operations to carry out multi-million pound refits after an Air France Concorde burst into flames on take-off from Paris in July 2000, killing 113 people on board and on the ground.
Yet in September 1992 the British pound and the Italian lira went crashing out of the system.
He is holding out for 50 cents a pound for whole fish, just enough to cover his considerable transportation costs.
The N55 is a brilliant engine, outputting out 315 hp and 333 pound-feet of torque from 1, 400 to 4, 800 rpm.
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Last year he tried to throw out a multi-million pound pay deal for executives but the vast majority of shareholders approved the pay packages.
"I was just going out there, trying to pound the strike zone and try to get them back in the dugout as fast as possible, " Gonzalez said.
The 4.3-liter, four-cam, 32-valve V8 engine can race from zero to 60 mph in a respectable 5.9 seconds (the same as the V8 7-Series), throwing out 290 horsepower and 320 pound-feet of torque at 3, 400 rpm.
The 6-foot-2, 242-pound right-hander was selected 14th overall out of his Tampa, Fla.
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