Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peter Chiarelli, the Harvard captain, in the corner. He would talk. Even after a loss. I took a step toward him and kicked over a hockey stick...
...first, he wouldn't talk to me. Then, after some prodding by the sports information director, he consented. He sat in a corner of the locker room with a bag of ice on his shoulder. I could barely hear him when he answered my questions. And I didn't feel like asking him to speak...
...American public, which has never really been in the contras' corner, has no appetite for such an extended commitment. A poll taken for TIME last month by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that 52% of 1,014 adults questioned favor cutting off all military support to the contras, vs. 26% who favor additional military aid and 22% not sure. The public is pessimistic about the course of events in Nicaragua: 62% believe it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that U.S. troops will end up fighting there...
...Driven from every other corner of the earth," Samuel Adams intoned in 1776, those seeking freedom "direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum." From the beginnings of American history, no would-be immigrants have had greater claim on the national conscience than those seeking shelter from repression. But how to distinguish legitimate refugees from the mass of aliens who come to the U.S. merely in search of work or a change of life? The U.S. Supreme Court gave an answer last week that should smooth the path, at least slightly, for thousands fleeing death squads, invading...
Suddenly the merger whirlwind started blowing once again last week, into every corner of the economy. Chrysler's agreement to buy AMC was only the most stunning of a series of takeover bids and pacts that swept through the boardrooms of airline companies, book publishers, casino operators, shoemakers and retailers. Says Thom Brown, chief of investment policy at Butcher & Singer, a Philadelphia-based investment-banking firm: "There are so many deals in the works that it's hard to keep a cap on them...