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Dixon says that now that "it is no longer necessary to rely on the older, established family connections," the traditional independents may have seen their heyday...
...fast and for Crimson tacklers, he was about as difficult to take down as the Redskins' John Riggins was in his heyday...
...ancestors. Washington Irving's 1828 A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus glorified a commanding character with an Italian name and sailing under a Spanish flag who nonetheless displayed virtues and characteristics that U.S. citizens, most of them from northern Europe, could admire. Thus did the heyday of Columbus idolatry begin -- in an early attempt to provide the nation with the icons of multicultural diversity...
...revolutionary heyday, it did a lot more. The voice it offered to all, in participatory arenas large and small. A "soviet" was a democratic forum more like a town meeting than anything else, back before it became sysonymous with gerontocracy, corruption and the nomenklatura. Factory meetings, cooperative meetings, production meetings, even artists' meetings. When we think of the Soviet avant-garde of the early twenties, we must remember that it was the massive unleashing of human potential that drove the arts forward. Marx's dream wasn't becoming a reality, but it was becoming less ludicrous...
...billion is missing from the company's books. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi, has pumped in $1 billion to keep the bank afloat since taking it over last year and has dismissed hundreds of the Pakistani bankers who ran B.C.C.I. in its heyday. Abu Dhabi, the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve are struggling to come up with a workable restructuring plan that will satisfy regulators amid continuing disclosures of illicit banking activity...