Word: brawling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest reflects a worrisome increase in racial incidents on U.S. campuses, including Columbia and the University of Michigan last year. At UMASS, tensions have run high since a 1986 black-white brawl among 1,500 students. Five months ago, an independent report criticized the university for a "historical denial" of the racial problems. Black students, who constitute 2.7% of the 26,400 student body, hailed the new agreement as a turning point...
...broadcast. He was coached as if he were a candidate preparing for a debate or a pugilist preparing for a fight, rather than a journalist going into an interview. Howard Rosenberg, a producer from CBS's Washington bureau, played Bush. "We knew it was going to be a brawl," says Cohen. "We prepared with that expectation." In the last of the three rehearsals, Rather was warned that Bush might bring up what Rather calls "the Miami thing," the blackout last September when a bristling Rather stomped off the Evening News set to protest CBS's decision to allow...
...twelve months out of twelve in the real world. The narrator meets a renowned Indian healer named Rolling Thunder, and nothing happens; then a crazed and menacing religious cultist, and nothing happens again. Even when the narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw biker, kills a man in a brawl -- something happens here, certainly -- the fact comes out only as an aside, as part of a moody, troubling description of his skirmish with a bored psychiatrist at a VA hospital. The author's sound instinct is to play against the dramatic. There is no resolution of the brother's predicament...
...biggest corporate brawl in history could be nearing an end. Thanks in part to the negotiating skills of TWA Chairman Carl Icahn, a settlement may be at hand in the epic legal battle between Texaco and Pennzoil. Since 1985 Texaco has been appealing a court order to pay Pennzoil $10.5 billion in damages as a result of a merger dispute. In April, Texaco filed for bankruptcy protection. Enter Icahn, who three weeks ago became Texaco's largest stockholder by boosting TWA's holdings to 12.3%. Icahn helped forge a deal between Pennzoil and a committee representing Texaco's shareholders...
After the bruising battles that led to the rejection of Robert Bork and the unexpected withdrawal of Douglas Ginsburg, few liberals or conservatives were in any mood for another knockdown brawl. And, at least at first glance, one seems unlikely. No one could find anything in either Kennedy's Norman Rockwell personal background or his twelve-year record on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento that would prevent him from being confirmed as the nation's 104th Supreme Court Justice, and potentially a long-serving one. At 51, Kennedy is young enough to be shaping court decisions well...