Word: fabricators
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because we have witnessed in our society and in our city enough of conflict and violence so as to threaten the very fabric of our freedoms and diminish the dignity...
...most important quality of a leader is courage. He must act in risky situations on the confidence in his own judgment. He has a responsibility to society not to overstrain its fabric, but he must push it to the limits. He must define that margin where he can influence events. If he exceeds the margin he may bog down. If he goes below the margin he may become irrelevant. If he allows it, the public will project its own insecurities on a leader. Politics is the management of people. It is important to understand the psychology as well...
Bradbury's spare, economical style reveals the consummate storyteller. But it conceals the moralist. Other science-fiction writers may celebrate technology; Bradbury warns readers to be wary of it. Other fantasists may admire power or cunning; Bradbury saves his praise for the fragile fabric of civilization, and extols the basic virtues of common sense and human affection...
...building that trust between coaches and players, creating loyalties that have reached beyond a game and into the fabric of a region's culture, is a simple matter of taking care not to act like the biggest animal in the forest. "There's just three things I ever say," sums up Bear Bryant, when he is pushed to explain his philosophy of coaching. "If anything goes bad, then I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people...
...little darlings are parentless and begging to be taken home. They do not come from stork, or test tube, but from a former medical clinic in Cleveland, Ga., called Babyland General. They are dolls. Each fabric-and-polyester infant is a "soft sculpture," handmade by one of 125 employees of Entrepreneur Xavier Roberts, 24, a former artist. In just two years, Babyland has "delivered" 50,000 babies at prices of $125 to $200 each, which Roberts insists on calling adoption fees. "You don't buy them, you adopt them," said one middle-aged Miami woman, pressing a fat baby...