Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work on a third. Over the next few weekends, as pro football's best teams meet in the playoffs, Madden's audience will approach 50 million people a broadcast. Like a rock star, he travels the country in a customized bus, the benefit of a glad-handing deal with Greyhound, and while in New York City, lives at the Dakota, the realm of Leonard Bernstein and Yoko Ono. He likes to hang out in front of the building in untied tennis shoes with pushed-in heels or to squeak along Columbus Avenue communing with the town. "The people," he says...
...think, more than anything. The simplicity of it: two guys, no zone defenses"), Madden stirs more ripples of recognition than the actors and actresses, along with a surprising level of affection. "There aren't a lot of big, fat, redheaded people like me," he shrugs. Madden does a good deal of shrugging. For an analyst, he is not very analytical about himself. "I've ! never been caught up in that stuff. If you start believing you're somebody special, you'll start acting that way, and pretty soon you'll be a phony. I'm just...
...university officials said either that the school offered no such settlement, or that if there were such a deal, they were unaware...
...deal with the epidemic, Reagan appointed a presidential commission of 13 people, many with dubious qualifications. After three months, the chairman, a doctor, resigned in frustration and was replaced by an admiral. The commission's final recommendations are supposed to appear next summer. Beyond that, the Administration busied itself in imposing compulsory AIDS tests on certain defenseless groups (federal prisoners and would-be immigrants, for instance), a move that compromised civil rights without accomplishing much of anything. Gay rights groups excoriated the Administration for inactivity, and the New York Times concluded that Reagan's lack of a coherent policy...
...women down the hall from Gorbachev was Raisa Maximovna Titorenko, a bright, popular philosophy student a year younger than he. Mlynar recalls that Mikhail initially had a good deal of competition for her attention, but the two eventually began seeing each other regularly. They were married early in 1954. The couple celebrated the occasion modestly with 30 or so other students at a party in the corner of the dormitory eating hall, then went to Gorbachev's room for their wedding night. Gorbachev's roommates had arranged to stay away. The following day, however, they drifted back, and Raisa returned...