Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nice to kick someone while she's down, but I will. Cambridge State Representative Saundra Graham deserved to lose last week's Democratic primary. She ran a lousy, practically invisible campaign against a relative political unknown and lost by 49 votes. She may yet salvage her political career, but not without a long, hard lesson in the ABCs of politics...
...example she might look to for encouragement is that of her frequent political ally, Governor Michael S. Dukakis, whose arrogance and overconfidence cost him the 1978 Democratic gubernatorial primary. Four years later, having learned a lesson in humility, Dukakis returned to the State House and revived a dormant political career...
Hinz also broke the career 1,000-yard mark and needs 685 more yards to enter Harvard's top five career list...
Four years is a long time in an athlete's career, and eight years at a world-class level of competition is almost an eternity. Yet it is a dozen years since U.S. and Soviet teams met at a Summer Olympics. Historians will long debate President Carter's 1980 decision following the invasion of Afghanistan to snub the only Olympics ever held in the Soviet Union. They will debate as well whether the Soviets avoided Los Angeles four years later out of fear about security, as claimed, or as retaliatory tit for tat. To most athletes, the underlying stratagems...
Nino Fennoy, a saintly coach of the kind these neighborhoods always seem to inspire, steered her through a series of Junior Olympics championships and a busy career of basketball and volleyball at Lincoln High. An admirer of the great Tennessee State track coach Ed Temple, Fennoy had been keeping an eye out for his own Wilma Rudolph. The pigtails, the skinny legs, the scraped knees were not his signal. "It was the smile," he says. Coach Fennoy required her to keep journals on the teams' small road trips and monitored her syntax and spelling. "Where you're going," he told...