Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to attack the pressure and then get into a half-court offense," Yale Coach Dick Kuchen said. "We never did that. When we decided to take a three-point shot or jump shot quickly, that's not our style of play...
...brief recesses from public service. He treated the work as a secret, showing pieces of it only reluctantly to a few friends. Elliot Richardson, his first Washington mentor, recalls it as "marvelously prescient and penetrating," in part because of Darman's gift for dispassionate analysis. Says Richardson: "Dick never allowed his thinking to be colored by how he wished the situation to come out." The tome is now shelved. Darman wants it forgotten. He rebuffed publishers who sought a memoir of his time with Reagan. Reason: a really candid book might limit future opportunities for high office...
...beguiling to run for re-election challenged only by a Trotskyite and a vegetarian. In 1988, 65 incumbents ran unopposed. Congressmen so blessed are reluctant to take a stance that might complicate re-election. "The risk they are averting is not the loss of their seat," explains Republican Congressman Dick Armey of Texas, "but that they have to go home and face a rigorous challenge." A House Democratic leader says colleagues sometimes complain, "If I cast that vote, I've bought myself an opponent next time...
...Coach Dick Kuchen's squad lists 13 sopho- mores and freshmen on its roster, includingfour starters. Who says you need experience inthis game...
...Castro Valley, Calif., Dick Bash, owner of a store named Combat Arms, reports that he is overwhelmed by demand, largely from gun fanciers who fear that the Purdy massacre might at last prod legislators into taking some serious steps to control the sale of guns. Says he: "There is an arms race on, all right. People are rushing to buy guns before the government takes them away...