Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mayors who presided over less fortunate cities had even less to offer their poor constituents, and have suffered accordingly. In 1986, Gary's Hatcher and Newark's Ken Gibson became the first black mayors to fall to challenges from a new generation of black aspirants less interested in national podiums...
But when it comes to capturing a team's locker-room atmosphere, Golenbock, the co-author of Yankee-bashing books like Sparky Lyle's The Bronx Zoo and Graig Nettles' Balls, has no peer. If you're interested in college athletics or just want to read a horror story about...
With its turbocharged engine and curvilinear profile, the Swedish-built Saab 900 was a chariot of choice for arrivistes of the mid-1980s. But now Saab- Scania's auto division is hitting the skids, largely because of intensified competition and a relatively weak dollar that has pushed the cost of...
The fate of the refugees had been discussed for weeks by East and West Germany, with Hungary insisting it was primarily a bystander interested in seeing a solution. The communique said, "The talks between East Germany and West Germany ended in failure." It did not elaborate.
Never mind, Fukuyama seems to say: "For our purposes, it matters very little what strange thoughts occur to people in Albania or Burkina Faso, for we are interested in . . . the common ideological heritage of mankind." This passage, almost a throwaway line amid the references to Hegel and the main strands...