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...strikers' hopes in a seemingly hopeless cause focus on one man: Ray Rogers, the tenacious labor organizer who eight years ago helped bring a union to the J.P. Stevens textile company after 17 years of resistance, and has led fights against many other firms, has taken up the banner of the United Paperworkers...
...Meese makes a lovely target. Broad and a bit blubbery, trusting and more than a shade bumbling, the Attorney General is planted firmly atop the disintegrating ramparts of the Reagan Administration. He is the last centurion of the far right who stands out there, his banner still thrust high...
...never quite accepted the code that said, no question, these men's teams deserved the coverage they got. Sure, when women's basketball or women's swimming won Ivies they got banner headlines. And women athletes got profiled when they did something outstanding...
November 8, 1987: They play the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team's theme song--"The Star Spangled Banner"--before the game and the Olympians send rockets glowing red white, blue and all 25 colors of the rainbow toward Harvard goalies John Devin and Michael Francis. Harvard looks a bit shellshocked after this one, a 15-3 Team USA triumph...
...generations that built socialism." In a February speech to party leaders, he again complained of people who "try to present our history as a chain of mistakes and crimes and to gloss over great achievements of the past and present." Added Ligachev: "All this is being done under the banner of glasnost -- a shameful occupation...