Word: bradford
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British soccer has been plagued by a series of fatal mishaps. During a 1985 soccer game in Bradford, England, fire engulfed the grandstand, killing 56 fans. The same year, 39 people died at Heysel Stadium in Brussels after Liverpool hooligans attacked supporters of the rival Italian team, touching off a lethal stampede. As a result, the Union of European Football Associations banned English clubs indefinitely and barred Liverpool from playing in Europe for an additional three seasons...
...Economics Head Tutor J. Bradford Delong on the low numbers of women concentrating in the department...
...conceit is as low-road as the plot twist in a kung fu scuzzathon. The film imagines that the FBI imported a free-lance black operative to terrorize the town's mayor into revealing the murderers' names. Taken (like much else in the picture) from a report in William Bradford Huie's 1965 casebook, Three Lives for Mississippi, the scene invariably gooses a cheer out of its audience -- almost a rebel yell. But its grizzly machismo represents an '80s-movie solution to a '60s for-real enigma: Dirty Harry beats dirty laundry...
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Reagan's man, William Bradford Reynolds, outraged minorities by breaking the Justice Department's long- standing alliance with civil rights organizations. The new appointee could help the G.O.P. lure nonwhite voters by reversing Reynolds' opposition to affirmative-action quotas. One key decision: whether the Administration should side with civil rights groups in opposing any rollback on discrimination suits brought under the Civil Rights Act of 1866 when the issue is argued before the Supreme Court next year...
...Crimson's hopes then rested on the on-side kick Kenny Thomas booted the ball short to Yale's Bradford Lee, who later became the Associate, Professor of History here...