Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...things I tell my players is never to handicap the season, but we have our work cut out for us," Sullivan said. "A lot of things can happen in this very even league, but it's clear that we cannot make too many mistakes from here...
...speaks fluent English garnished with appropriate jokes and has a confident, firm handshake?enough to put the most leery American businessmen at ease. "You wished there were more internationally savvy guys like him in China," says an American investment banker in Hong Kong. "He even has a good golf handicap...
...certain novelty arises when Carl's leg is shattered in an accident. The Navy wants him to retire. Instead he orders the leg amputated, thinking a prosthesis will be less of a handicap to him on duty. We may never have seen courage expressed in quite that way, but it's also an excuse to bring a sobered-up Billy back to help Carl prove to a review board that he can return to active service. This, naturally, he does, presumably with the thanks of a grateful nation...
...certain novelty arises when Carl's leg is shattered in an accident. The Navy wants him to retire. Instead he orders the leg amputated, thinking a prosthesis will be less of a handicap to him on duty. We may never have seen courage expressed in quite that way, but it's also an excuse to bring a sobered-up Billy back to help Carl prove to a review board that he can return to active service. This, naturally, he does, presumably with the thanks of a grateful nation...
...social group has stretched to encompass gender (women facing genital mutilation in Togo) and sexual orientation (gay men in Mexico). For the first time, the disabled are demanding the same consideration. Says Bill Strassberger, an INS spokesman: "Cases that involve persons seeking asylum directly based upon a handicap seem to be a recent development...