Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that time again for the NBA teams to go on the "Little Red Riding Hood" odyssey known as the regular season. It's the long trip to grandmother's house (read: NBA Playoffs), and once you get there, the big, bad wolf (read: perennial league powers Boston and the Lakers, not the expansion Minnesota Timberwolves) is waiting to eat you alive...
...there's hope for all those teams that have suffered through the "Little Red Riding Hood" syndrome in the 1980s after last year's breakthrough, when the Detroit Pistons swept through the playoffs and took the Lakers in four games for the NBA Championship. Finally, the NBA trophy wasn't bathed in Celtic green or Laker gold...
...department, he testified, had given developers "a reason to hire a consultant" and then provided "the money to pay the consultant's fees." Moreover, he said, private brokers who handled house sales for HUD and then failed to turn the money over to the Government were not "Robin Hood-type heroes . . . robbing the rich. They are stealing from the taxpayer and depriving low- and moderate- income people of the opportunity to realize the American dream of home ownership." He noted that HUD had even let some developers turn housing projects for retirees into havens for the wealthy. He cited...
...were Robin Hood, then Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 would be Little John. Of course, Bok does not go around robbing rich people (unless you count fund-raising), and Steiner is more likely to stun opponents with a deft thrust of the law than the blow of a quarter staff...
...After a car accident I had when I was 16. That was a big one. Some lady had the sun in her eyes and ran her car into me. The hood ornament rammed into my head. I had days of semiconsciousness, an out-of-body experience. I saw the tunnel, the light, the whole deal...