Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just the classiest kid on the team," White adds...
Living up to his advance billing was not easy. "They seemed to think I could win on a donkey," he recalls. Although he did win his first race, his performance soon fell behind the pace of his publicity. There were rumors of a "Get the Kid" campaign by established jockeys. Moreover, Cauthen had to become accustomed to the English racing scene, which is, by some standards, a bit eccentric. "In America all of the race courses are flat, lefthanded, about a mile around and usually dirt," notes Cauthen. In England, "they are just where they laid them out 200 years...
...people who do not have time to read. Stephen Colbert, manager of a Waldenbooks store in the Ford City Shopping Center in Chicago, calls the tapes a panic buy, particularly for procrastinating high school students whose parents drag them in. Says he: "It's Tuesday night and the kid needs to have it by tomorrow, and the parent always says, 'This is the last time you'll do this...
With the script, CAP workers provide a two-hour introduction for parents, with some straight facts on sex abuse and suggested ways of encouraging their children to tell about any thing off-color that may have happened with an adult. "An offender will scare a kid," says a CAP worker, and "tell him his parents won't love him any more. So you have to defuse that strategy ahead of time...
Corbin, who recruited Pascucci from Beverly High School in nearby Beverly, Mass, says the Dartmouth talk, "was done in a professional way,' and calls the three year letterman "a winner kind of kid who desires to succeed...