Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...connection, but primarily in the form of male bonding--with coaches, teachers, scout leaders, friends. What boys need, he says, are clans. And rituals of any kind--from dinners with Mom to ball games with Dad--should happen regularly as part of a life in which parents stay in closer touch with their kids...
...esteem is more important than physics. Better to try to achieve equal outcomes from the bottom up. A President can't do much about race relations, but if Clinton got off the affirmative-action barricades and on to programs that ensured equal education opportunities for kids, we might get closer to where Martin Luther King Jr. originally dreamed...
With the visitor's section closer to the field, Bulldog fans and others may have had a marginal advantage in getting their heretical exhortations heard...
...federal agents are clearly not getting the kind of help that they need from the locals," says Monroe. "And that appears to leave them no closer to catching Rudolph than they were when he first went on the run six months...
...Voices of Lahaina: The Life Story of Maui's Fabulous Fardens, by Mary C. Richards. "The Fardens are well-known Hawaiian musicians," he said, "and they have been looking for their grandfather for more than 50 years." The proximity of the names and circumstances caused him to take a closer look at Christoph's signature. He decided that what we had thought was a J was really an F. Turns out that while he was in Hawaii, the man we knew as Christoph Jardin had called himself Christoph Farden. The director then arranged a meeting with one of his granddaughters...