Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids in Chinatown are disadvantaged educationally and recreationally," he says. "The public schools don't help them much with their language handicap, so they can't keep up academically. Chinatown is adjacent to the Combat Zone, and the Mass Turnpike runs right through the middle of it. They have little open space left for recreation...
...twelve, he was old to begin serious dance studies, perhaps, but talent overcame that handicap. By the time he was 16, he was invited to join a dance troupe touring and performing for teenagers. They went to Leningrad, where he found the atmosphere of the old czarist capital intoxicating. As a dancer, he could not help visiting the Kirov school. There he happened to attend a class taught by the late Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin, a great master who coached Nureyev and Valery Panov. Not hoping for much, Baryshnikov approached Pushkin (no kin to the famed Russian poet) and said...
Julie Roin described the handicap as "the hardest part of the game. We had to avoid touching bottom when we had the ball...
...handicap a horse race simply by picking a jockey, regardless of his mount, the trainer or the opposition, is usually considered a form of gambling insanity. Not so last week at New York's Aqueduct race track. There, a $2 win bet on the same jockey in each of eight races on the same afternoon would have paid off $56. The jockey was Angel Cordero Jr., who has been almost unbeatable since the opening of Aqueduct's spring meeting last month. In 15 days of racing at the "Big A," Cordero has ridden 48 winners and finished...
Since Mobutu decreed his African "authenticity" campaign three years ago, Zaïre's Christians have suffered increasingly harsh restrictions. The government not only banned all religious youth organizations but even church periodicals and radio programs-a severe handicap in a nation with the travel and communications problems of far-flung Zaïre. The government plans to shut down the three important seminaries at the national university in Kinshasa at the end of the school year. It has also seized control of elementary and secondary schools-most of which are church-run-and prohibited them from teaching religion...