Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposition: will the city of Boston please keep quiet until the last pitch of the series is thrown? No mention of the magic number, no mention of trying to make the Series again to face the hated Mets...
...February of 1985, one week after his confirmation, Bennett shocked college presidents across the nation, not to mention students, by endorsing President Reagan's plan to cut federal spending for student financial aid and by suggesting that some students who would lose aid may have to consider "divestitures of certain sorts--like a stereo divestiture, an automobile divestiture, or a three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture...
Lubin said Jean-Claude Paul, commander of the 700-man Dessalines Barracks, was named commander-in-chief of the army, but Avril did not mention Paul. Dessalines is said to be the most feared unit in the 7000-man Haitian army...
...medals at the 1987 Pan Am Games and placed tenth in the 1987 world championships. But Martinez gets no state subsidy, no help from a national council for his sport to pay for his San Francisco apartment. With a wife and one-year-old daughter to support -- not to mention a special diet to maintain his 318 lbs. of muscle -- Martinez, 31, cannot exercise six or seven hours a day like his Soviet rivals. He has a 40-hr.-a-week job. "I work at Budget Rent a Car," he explains, "parking autos, getting them for customers, taking them...
Wars aren't completely out of mind. The awful chill of Munich precedes every reunion now. At least since Hitler and probably since Zeus, the Games have been an irresistible forum for political commentary, not to mention a handy occasion for defections. But the unfaded memory of the murders in the Israeli quarters still haunts the Olympics. It makes every volatile stop seem fearsome until the hosts -- the Korean people themselves, not the overgrown playground directors -- step forward. That will be the first event...