Word: adamancy
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Linemate Tim Smith, however, leads the squad in that category with a point in all 15 games. Both Fusco and Smith are well short of the Harvard record of 24 held by Bob Cleary and the ECAC record of 32 held by, among others RPI's Adam Oates...
Increasingly, these issue dramas are being accompanied by elaborate public education campaigns, featuring such devices as study guides and toll-free "hot lines." A groundbreaking film on this front was Adam, a 1983 NBC movie about a family's search for its kidnaped child. Following each of the movie's two airings, the network broadcast a series of photos of missing children. Some 30 were found as a result, and the increased public awareness helped spur the establishment of a permanent national center for locating missing children. In conjunction with next month's telecast of Surviving, ABC * has produced...
Fusco, who all year had been trailing RPI's Adam Oates in the national scoring face, has finally passed the Engineer Oates, who led the nation most of the year, now has a 2.84 points a game average...
...high-ranking members of the Internal Affairs Ministry, which oversees the secret police. But although he said that at one time he had mistakenly believed the orders to abduct Popieluszko came from "the top," he allowed the stain of complicity to go no further than his immediate superior, Adam Pietruszka, a former colonel and the fourth man in the dock. Like two of his co-defendants, former Lieutenants Waldemar Chmielewski and Leszek Pekala, who testified two weeks ago, Piotrowski said he assumed that the idea to abduct the priest was sponsored by people senior enough to shield him from prosecution...
...Chmielewski supported previous testimony by his co-defendant, Leszek Pekala, that Piotrowski had summoned them to discuss taking "actions to frighten Father Popieluszko." Chmielewski said that after he raised questions about whether the priest, who had a weak heart, could survive such harsh treatment, Piotrowski consulted with his superior, Adam Pietruszka, a former colonel and the fourth man in the dock, about what to do if Popieluszko died. Later, Piotrowski explained that it had taken some time for the colonel to go "to the top" for approval. Chmielewski told the court that "by the top, I understood...