Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, "Living with Nuclear Weapons," will be released simultaneously in hardcover by Harvard University Press and in paperback by Bantam Books on June 1. Its publication culminates a year-long project that began last June when President Bok announced in his commencement address that the University should help to educate the public by providing an objective report on nuclear issues...
...West Virginia hollow of Gary, the silence hangs like a thick fog. "Used to be early in the morning, I would be real busy, men stopping in to get their lunch," said Constance Stepney, a cashier at the Bantam combination grocery store and gas station. "Now it's a real ghost town. You don't see no trains. You don't see the men coming in and going to work 'cause nobody's working...
...played defense ever since he began playing hockey 17 years ago in the peewee and bantam leagues of Minnesota. From then on it's been his position, despite the fact that most blueliners are considerably larger. "My size hinders me a bit, but I don't get out-positioned," he says...
...many times before; he had been attacked by so many who were now swept into the dustbin of history. Why should he care about the doubters? Indeed, as Koestler grew older, there was a marked change in the man. The fury and belligerence seemed to be ebbing. The bantam figure, who once seemed to be a walking history of modern European politics, appeared to be negotiating some new contract with the world...
...Keeping Faith, a 622-page account of his White House tenure to be published on Nov. 2 (Bantam Books; $22.50), Carter presents the most intimate and detailed version to date of the scene behind the scenes at Camp David?the intense arguments, the searing animosities, the repeated near breakdowns before final success. He also illuminates Begin's often infuriating and exasperating behavior today by offering insights gained at Camp David into the Israeli Prime Minister's character...