Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writer's use of the phrase "extensive business dealings with high-ranking officials" to describe my honest and on-the-record business transactions is at best an exaggeration and, at worst, a lie. Obviously enamored by the myth which dictates that bigger is better, the writer chose to use the word "extensive" when in fact there is no justification for use of that word in this context. The misuse of that word may sell copy, but it prostitutes the function of a free press and crucifies communication of the truth...
...Snow-blowers went into high gear early in the first half, accounting for many of the 12 first-half Hoosier shots that ran Crimson keeper Scott Salisbury ragged...
...well-connected sleazeball who recruits naive high schoolers to North Carolina State with visions of national TV, number-one rankings, superstardom and sports cars, only to sit them on the bench? The racist manipulator who covers up his players' drug problems, illiteracy and criminal tendencies without trying to get them help? The egomaniac who pressures professors and administrators into preserving eligibility for Wolfpack cagers in his single-minded pursuit of NCAA glory and the all-mighty buck...
...real problem stems from high school, when teen superstars lose sight of academics in pursuit of the NBA money. Golenbock realizes that young athletes must be taught that they must study to become Michael Jordan, because most will never become Michael Jordan...
...states tumble together around barely visible boundaries, and we have no idea who the hell we are. Of course, various people have tried to find out; we have drifted down the river with Huck Finn, poured across the highways with the Joads, maybe followed Kerouac through his woozy continental high-jinks. We somehow believe that there exists a sense, a spirit, something, that defines this tumbled vastness as distinctly American...