Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kosh has been playing basketball since she was six. She knows the ups and downs of the game, that sometimes the glass is half empty and sometimes it is half full. She thinks she may have even found the key to winning: capitalizing on the frustrations of the other team...
...people point the finger at Ronald Reagan, as the pioneer of substance-less campaigning oriented to the little glass screen. And in a fit of self-flagellation, the media have even blamed themselves. In a democracy however, there are no excuses. We, the people, are the guilty ones, and we always get what we deserve...
...meet its obligations, Manville must squeeze every possible dollar out of its sales of fiber-glass insulation, forest products and industrial goods. During its bankruptcy, Manville slashed costs and reduced its 26,000-worker payroll by 8,000 employees. The firm shut down its asbestos mine, trimmed money-losing subsidiaries, and sold its headquarters building near Denver...
...West 139th Street a path points toward this looking-glass world. It leads first past the West Harlem community garden, where Julio Benitez and Stephen Gallagher work the flower beds and watch for mockingbirds. Of the new park Gallagher says, "We're negotiating with the state right now. If they're going to have trees and grass up there, they could let us grow some vegetables." He isn't making any predictions yet about the impact of the park, though he's quite pleased with this season's chard. Just ahead, a road crew plants pilings...
KRISTALLNACHT: THE JOURNEY FROM 1938 TO 1988 (PBS, Nov. 9, 9 p.m. on most stations). A look at the Nazi campaign of terror against Jews begins with the infamous "night of breaking glass...