Word: earls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glamour kept coming after that, but so did the trouble. There were technical foulups: Ed Asner and Elizabeth Taylor were momentarily trapped in the folds of a falling curtain, like big game in a tree trap. The pace slowed: "I can't read my monitor," James Earl Jones rumbled like an Old Testament prophet rebuking his flock. Most of all, the pretension showed: birthday candles were lit on a cake that looked like the Tower of Babel, as discomfited luminaries dished up decades of encapsulated world history in which the Actors' Fund got featured billing ("A Russian named...
...Burger Court in recent years has retrenched somewhat on the gains made by its predecessor, the activist and rights-conscious tribunal of Earl Warren. Right-wingers have assailed the Court for not scrapping even more of that Court's "Liberal solutions. "But doubts about specific Court decisions are no excuse for limiting its authority as the branch most committed to defending civil rights. If the Reagan Administration continues its attempts to roll back the social legislation of the sixties, we may need a truly activist Court--one committed to defending civil rights and equipped to do so--more than ever...
...solid South and the big-city machines, he had added an implausible combination of blacks and ethnic minorities, intellectuals and labor unions. Even Poultryman Schechter confessed that "the 16 votes in our family were cast in his favor." The hapless Lemke won only 890,000 votes and Communist Earl Browder a trifling 80,000. Alf Landon later remarked that the result reminded him of a tornado that swept away a man's barn and reduced his house to splinters. The man's wife found him laughing in the ruins and demanded to know what he was laughing...
...ensuing 12-play drive was the longest in Super Bowl history, covering 92 yards in all. A 15-yard penalty on Cincinnati's Jim LeClair for unnecessary roughness positioned the 49ers for the score, which came on an 11-yard pass from Montana to fullback Earl Cooper...
Surprisingly enough, few detailed studies exist about the actual cost of remediation and how effective it is. Horizons Unlimited, a special program at Florida State University, now screens and trains about 200 underprepared students. Director Earl Gordon has no exact count but as evidence of the program's success can point to graduates who have become doctors, businessmen and lawyers. At the 170,000-student City University of New York, well known for its mission to educate all comers, there are no plans to cut back open admissions, even though remediation costs $33 million annually. All incoming freshmen must...