Word: fines
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What is most distressing about Ryan, though, is the undertone of racism which he uses to praise the Celtics and downgrade the accomplishments of the NBA's other fine (predominantly Black) athletes. Last month, as a guest of the CBS Game of the Week's halftime show, Ryan was informed that a poll of NBA players would name Michael Jordan (65 percent) as the league's MVP over Boston's own Larry Bird (19 percent). In response, Ryan used this poll as evidence for his theory that the players are "too stupid to understand" their own game. Is it Black...
...tournament will also bring to a close Austrian's fine four-year career at Harvard. The senior dropped only two Ivy individual matches during her four-year career. Harvard also won four Ivy championships and posted a 28-0 mark during her stint...
...opening night of New York City Ballet's 40th anniversary last week made for a fine old beano. For one thing, it inaugurated the company's ambitious American Music Festival, three weeks of patriotic programming involving 21 new ballets, five specially commissioned scores, with a total of 41 U.S. composers featured. For another, the evening had a real family feeling that bound the company and its intensely loyal following. Both Suzanne Farrell and Patricia McBride, the troupe's senior ballerinas, appeared in special numbers, and both danced with a radiance and glamour that brought the audience to its feet...
After clinching the Republican presidential nomination in mid-March, George Bush seemed to disappear from the national stage. That low profile was fine with the cautious half of his campaign team. "The public isn't focused on the election yet," declared Bush's pollster, Robert Teeter. "This is a time for unifying the party, planning the convention, developing positions and reaching out to new groups...
...many trade experts, along with nearly all politicians, think the Government should take specific actions to reduce imports and boost exports. Clyde Prestowitz, a former trade negotiator for the Reagan Administration, suggests that the U.S. can do a better job of stimulating American sales in foreign markets. It is fine, for example, that the U.S. is now pressuring Japan to accept more beef and citrus products. But the Government could focus more attention on ensuring fair trade in high-tech industries that have greater strategic importance to the U.S. economy...