Word: based
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spectacle of nature and living close to it, with homemade entertainments and being with one another doing good work on good land? Ed Sidey thinks they can, if there is just enough money to keep people apace of the world in education and health care, if the economic base is adequate to support quality churches, parks and streets. The fundamental values still celebrated along Greenfield's streets are as sound as ever, their loss in cities the cause of human devastation, something acknowledged now by most experts...
...most public step yet in the grooming of Jiang, 63, to succeed 85-year-old party patriarch Deng Xiaoping. When Jiang, the mayor of Shanghai, was selected in June to replace ousted General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, most Chinese were surprised. An engineer who lacks both a political power base and ties to the increasingly influential military, Jiang was considered a seat warmer ultimately destined for lesser things...
...Himalayan town of Dharmsala, India, the base of the exile government. Tibetans danced and sang in the streets...
...grins and exotic names like Mookie Wilson and Hubie Brooks. They had Rusty Staub, the league's fattest pinch-hitter.(Staub was especially fun to have around. When your friend had to retrieve the ball from the bush you could yell, "Quick, you've got a shot at second base! Rusty's running...
...last three years have been trying timesfor us Met lovers. We wanted to think of Mexcareening down the first-base line to snag a buntand nab a runner at third, not Keith Hernandeztestifying about cocaine deals in Pittsburgh. Dr.K winning the Cy Young, not Dwight Gooden in cokerehab. The Kid diving into the fourth row for aseventh-row foul ball, not Gary Carter mugging forTV and irritating everyone with his golly-geefamily man routine. Straw slamming 35 taters, notDarryl Strawberry acting like a two-year-old.Nails hitting the miraculous round-tripper, notLenny Dykstra wigging out in the Pasta...