Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elvin Hayes -- Kareem's particular college rival -- retired from the Houston Rockets in 1984, one. Since then, just Kareem. He has amassed the most games (1,525) and points (38,028) in history, but the telling indicator is that only three scorers in the league today have been even half as prolific. Recalling players past, he says, "They've come and gone by generations. I'm still here...
Right now, all these are among the half a dozen or so eating concepts being tested in pilot restaurants around the country in the hope that they will grow up to be the new-age McDonald's, Bob's Big Boys or Howard Johnsons. Such national restaurant chains are made, not born. Dreamed up by corporate entrepreneurs, they are produced by high-priced, savvy market researchers, advertising gurus, graphic designers and architects -- as well as by food consultants who cook up portion-controlled, idiot-proof recipes to feed the projected image. Owing more to McLuhan than to Escoffier, their packages...
Harvard was hurt in the second half by the absence of several key players. Co-Captain Mike Gielen missed the entire second half because of a scratched eye, and Dana Smith, Ralph James and Ron Mitchell each picked up their fourth fouls midway through the period...
...other half of the problem. Many law faculty members, and here the critical legal studies people are clearly the worst offenders, not only do not appreciate or understand what it means to prove something, but they believe it is wrongheaded to try to do so. For the defenders of critical legal studies, the type of scientific inquiry praciticed in the natural sciences is a misguided thing to attempt when inquiring into the social world...
...drive to Vail from Denver, the mountain town will come upon you as a surprise. You've been driving for an hour-and-a-half, the golf course on your left seems endless, when suddenly the red topped roofs and neat rows of town houses, condominiums and shops appears...