Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ahmed will hold a joint appointment with the Committee on African Studies, the Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Barbro M. Ek, assistant to the director of the Committee of Middle Eastern Studies, said yesterday...
...students of hers have come to speak with me in the Writing Center this year. Both have told me that they enjoyed her class quite...
Detroit's troubles center on Brown, who took over in the middle of last season from Ray Scott, a well-liked coach whose record had slipped at the end of his 3½-year tenure with the Pistons. Brown's personality clashes with some of the players are compounded by an embarrassment of riches. After obtaining four high-priced players during the off-season to strengthen the lineup, the Pistons have more talent than a 48-minute game can contain. On the twelve-man Detroit roster are eight players accustomed to starting and playing 35 to 40 minutes...
...more griping. What comes, comes." What came was a locker-room melee two weeks later. After an argument between Porter and Brown, Porter left the dressing room, then changed his mind. He returned and, according to one reporter, grappled with Brown while All-Star Center Bob Lanier struggled to separate them. Lanier, the team captain, later described the incident as "a discussion that got into a bigger discussion...
...control over the players slips away, Lanier has assumed some of the coach's perquisites, seemingly running the Pistons and even taking himself out of the game when he, not Brown, feels that he needs a rest. Still, Lanier has logged more playing time than any other N.B.A. center. His teammates more and more seem to concentrate on glaring or shouting at Brown; the coach responds by levying fines...