Word: haley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report, by Grace contractors Haley and Aldrich, Inc., said the materials deposited at the dump--and since removed--have not contaminated area groundwater and pose no risk to area residents' health...
...Alex Haley's Roots got her started. When she first read that epic reconstruction of a black family's odyssey from freedom in Africa to slavery and emancipation in Virginia, Dorothy Spruill Redford could trace her family only as far back as her grandparents. But Haley's genealogical pilgrimage impelled her to one of her own. For Redford, 43, a brisk, hard-driving welfare department supervisor in Portsmouth, Va., the quest would last a decade and grow into an obsession, an irresistible desire to light up the dark past...
...baguette-shaped buns -- le longburger. A 15-year-old Indian schoolgirl had a hit record called Disco Diwane (Disco Junkies). One time, an adaptation of American pop returned to the U.S. and popped over the top: among the Beatles' raw material was the music of the Everly Brothers, Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, but the band's worldwide influence was greater than any of their antecedents. Today American pop-culture imagery is being recycled more obliquely by Italy's Memphis group of furniture designers and by French painters mimicking the East Village fashion for graffiti...
...goalies played in the whatever-it-was. Four--Blair, Dickie McEvoy and John Devin of Harvard as well as John (the 145-second wonder) Haley of RPI--were perfect and allowed no goals. Two--Brian Jopling and Tony Martino--were awful and gave up 11 goals in their 58 minutes of play before they yielded to Haley...
...Haley spoke about his "shaggy-dog" technique: get the patient to make an absolute commitment to change, then guarantee a cure but do not tell the patient what it is for several weeks. "Once you postpone, you never lose them as patients," he said. "They have to find out what the cure is." One bulimic who ate in binges and threw up five to 25 times a day was told she would be cured if she gave the therapist a penny the first time she vomited and doubled the sum each time she threw up. Says Haley: "They quickly figure...