Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rare opportunity to play big-time football. Many are footing S.M.U.'s $13,200-a-year expenses themselves. "This is one great chance I couldn't pass ; up," says quarterback Greg Ziegler. There are pragmatic reasons too for getting on with the reborn Mustangs. "It will look good on my resume," mused a running back. Ziegler figures that "all the pressure of the big competition will help me later in law school...
...others to fraudulently conceal their illicit activities after they became U.S. residents. "There was no asylum agreement that Marcos could be just as big a crook in this country as he was in ((the Philippines))," says Loye Miller, spokeswoman for Attorney General Richard Thornburgh. "If he had been a good boy after he got to the U.S., he would not have the problems he has today...
...campaign is that while George Bush and Michael Dukakis are both bright and able men, this campaign has been criticized as one of the silliest, least substantive in history. Over the past several weeks my conviction has grown that the way we conduct a presidential campaign is not good enough, and we should set about trying to improve...
...what seems to you only a minor error in judgment, and suddenly your child is snatched from you. For Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) in A Cry in the Dark, the loss is permanent: she never sees her baby again, alive or dead. For Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) in The Good Mother, the outcome is not quite so cruel: she faces losing custody of her daughter Molly, but not the child's death. Yet both mothers find themselves in court, desperately defending themselves against society's determination to misunderstand their motives, to turn tormented consciences into legally guilty ones...
Voters can bid good riddance to the sour, trivial campaign...