Word: faceting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once," he said. "He turned and asked the umpire, 'Are you sure about that call?' For Borg, that is a tantrum." Ainslie interviewed many of Borg's tennis colleagues, including players, officials and promoters. "Fellow pros like John McEnroe, Stan Smith and Harold Solomon see one facet of Borg, but I got some surprising insights from talking to tennis umpires," says Ainslie. "Some of them have been in the business for years. They can make valid comparisons with the great players of the past, whereas for today's players, that's more difficult. Borg...
...longer has a capitalistic economy [April 21]. What we have instead is an aristocracy of Big Business-a handful of conglomerates that control every facet of American life. The American consumer no longer has a choice. Whatever "rose" I pick, the name turns out to be Mobil or Ford or General Foods...
While the Corporation finished lunch inside, more than 150 protesters rallied outside 17 Quincy St. last Monday, chanting slogans reminiscent of last spring's protests. But this year the protest involved an added twist. The students charged that the University's South Africa policy is another facet of the racist and indifferent treatment Third World students receive at Harvard...
When Billy Cleary talks about hockey, he is opinionated. Not Archie Bunker opinionated, but the intelligent kind of opinionated that comes from years of experience in every facet of the game and an understanding of most every subtlety and intricacy it can offer. When Billy Cleary talks about hockey, everyone listens. People respect him. His players respect Billy Cleary, too. They respect him as a hockey mind, yes, but also as their teacher. Not just the teacher of power plays, but of life. The Harvard hockey club likes Cleary. One freshman even used the word "love...
...four armored divisions, equipped with heavy T-72 tanks and BMP and BMD armored personnel carriers, was also dug in near Kabul; the three others were fanned out at Kandahar in the south, Herat in the northwest and Kunduz in the northeast. American intelligence experts were puzzled by one facet of the Soviet deployment: each division had a full complement of chemical-biological-radiological warfare decontamination units. The most plausible explanation seemed to be that the decontamination units were regularly assigned to the divisions and, in the methodical Soviet way, had to go with the troops even if there...