Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Year better than Correspondent Steven Holmes, who has reported on Ueberroth from TIME's Los Angeles bureau for the past two years. Says Holmes: "Nearly all the people I interviewed, including Ueberroth, had to struggle against doubting Thomases, financial setbacks and physical exhaustion to bring their dreams to fruition. Yet somehow, astonishingly, they all made it." To get a fresh view of the personality behind Ueberroth's controlled demeanor, Robert Ajemian, TIME's Washington bureau chief for seven years, spent an intensive week with Ueberroth, accompanying him to his baseball commissioner's office, to several dinners, even on a Ueberroth...
...POINT during the Panama Canal treaty negotiations, Omar Toreros received unexpected advice from an unusual source, Filed Castro. The ubiquitous Cuban leader called his friend Omar--the military leader who had brought Panama's dream of ruling the canal to fruition--to urge "prudence and caution" in Panama's increasingly complicated external affairs...
...middle, trying to achieve a balance between the two. "Thief of Hearts" fails to achieve a thoroughly disturbing effect because Mickey suffers from a healthy psyche. She is tempted, she even yields slightly to Scotty, the man who offers to bring her fantasies to fruition. But Mickey never takes the plunge. "I don't really know you," she tells Scotty and returns quickly to her familiar world: sedate suburbia and reliable...
...Crimson's frustrations were aggravated by the efficiency of the Columbia defense, which executed the offside trap almost professionally any time the Harvard eleven tried to penetrate. As a result, Harvard's scoring hopes never reached fruition. Also contributing to the setback was the gadfly-like function performed by the Lions' Caribbean-born front line of Solomon Gayle, Dexter Skeene and Kingsley chin, all three of whom stayed in the faces of the Crimson back four throughout the game...
...group initiated a series of meetings to move forward on the issue. In conversations with President Bok and other high-level University officials, the Black activists explored the idea of a new committee to monitor Harvard's efforts to hire Black faculty and staff. Their leg-work came to fruition this spring when Bok agreed to the creation of an ad hoc group to recommend new ways to better recruit, attract and hold on to Black faculty and administrators...