Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indicator, the best college players only pull in $2,000 a year under the table. High school stars may be even more undercompensated. According to the Birmingham Post-Herald, current University of Alabama forward Bobby Lee Hurt only received a percentage of the revenues from soft drink machines and gate receipts while in high school--even after he threatened transfer to another school...
...Orioles are no strangers to bad starts. In 1979 they stumbled out of the gate at 3-8, but then stormed to 99 more victories and the AL pennant. And in an earlier year, 1974, they floundered at .500 until August--when they were eight games off the pace--and then blew out the rest of the division by winning 28 out of their last...
...event that broke the Easter calm began at 9:10 a.m., when a man later identified by Israeli authorities as Allen Goodman, 37, an American immigrant who appeared to be an Israeli army reservist, approached the Band Ghanim gate to the Temple Mount. He was carrying a sleeping bag, a handbag and an M-16 automatic rifle. Arab guards, alarmed at the sight of the weapon, shouted Mam 'nua! (Forbidden!). Goodman opened fire, wounding one guard and hitting another with the butt of his rifle...
...fired a tear-gas canister at the crowd, which then fled toward the Dome of the Rock. Meanwhile, soldiers were moving toward the protesters in a pincer movement. I found myself caught between the soldiers and the protesters, protected only by the white marble pillars. I turned toward a gate but the soldiers stopped me, guns at the ready. One shouted: 'Stay here! Don't move...
...show for nine minutes." On the jailing of a black writer who is a drug addict: "Mailer almost did in his ole lady and got nothing but a slap on the wrist, and here Ike is, doin' it to himself. " On black college students at the affirmative-action gate: "I see them a few years down the line, having smacked the wall, backing away, murmuring, 'I be goin' to figure this out.' " Douglass's own conclusions are black and white, them against us. He carries a revolver, which he once used to drive off attackers...