Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever gathered on a basketball court. There are passers with 360 degrees vision like Bird (despite his creaky back), John Stockton and Magic. Chris Mullin and Jordan are excellent three-point shooters. No one in possession of his faculties and desirous of retaining them would dare drive down the lane into territory defended by Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing and Karl Malone. Jordan and his Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen are tenacious open-court defenders. Then too there are Clyde Drexler and the Admiral, David Robinson. Twelfth man Christian Laettner will probably get a great view of all this talent mostly...
...late to mount a rally. Hey, chill out, replies Jordan. "We have too much talent, and we'll turn it on whenever we have to." Daly frets that the three-point shooting line in international basketball is closer to the basket than in the N.B.A. and that the lane is wider, both tending to nullify the Americans' height advantage. However, after seeing how little difference these factors made in his team's 136-57 loss to the Yanks, Cuban coach Miguel Gomez seemed transported to a Zen mode. "One finger cannot cover the sun," he said...
...Lane is finally beginning to "attract back" working families that "can serve as role models for the 80% of our residents who are still on welfare. Low rents help," he concedes, "but most productive people wouldn't even consider living in our buildings if we weren't gaining a reputation for providing a safe environment -- and that view would be impossible if we weren't sweeping aggressively...
...person of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp, the Bush Administration has funneled more than $30 million to Lane to continue the sweeps. "But conservatives believe such actions are local matters," says Lane, "so the President has refused to urge other cities to follow our lead -- and most haven't because too many minority leaders are out of touch with the folks who live in their projects and are therefore afraid of being accused of sponsoring civil rights violations." Bill Clinton says Lane is "the greatest," but he too has avoided endorsing the cornerstone of Lane's success...
Which leaves Perot. Suburban Chicago politicians fear that the drug gangs will simply move to what Lane calls "normal" neighborhoods if the projects are swept "clean." "But that would be great," he insists. "Nationally, we'll never get a handle on violent crime until 'normal' folks feel the fear that's felt in the ghetto. Only then will they scream for the kind of law enforcement, including things like house-by-house searches, that gives content to all the law-and-order rhetoric. Ross may have gone too far, but he's on the right track." Which means Perot might...