Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many athletes don't know when to retire. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mary Decker-Slaney are two that come to mind...
...Rushdie affair also reminds us that the hard-won emancipation of the human mind from those who would enslave it, now often taken for granted in the West, is more precious and more fragile than we would like to believe. The decision last week by some U.S. booksellers, including B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, and Barnes & Noble, to remove The Satanic Verses from store displays and shelves can only encourage future acts of intellectual terrorism. They have agreed to put the book back on the shelves, but their initial response is still disturbing...
...conditions, MacDonald vowed that he would not vacate his elective position after all. The council then voted to place MacDonald on indefinite leave, with pay. The Navajos had never before questioned the conduct of one of their chairmen, assuming each had only the best interests of his followers in mind...
...member of the War Resisters League, Philip Jee, 17, a senior at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, remained unshaken in his determination to become a Navy pilot. "It made me think," he said of the presentation. "But it didn't make me change my mind...
That is exactly what Hyatt had in mind. Hawaii, the sunshine's circus, attracts more American vacationers in winter than any other destination, and this hotel is fast becoming a main event. For their many millions, Hyatt transformed a stark moonscape of black lava rock with not so much as a sprig of vegetation into a 62-acre tropical garden, ringed by three towers, 1,241 rooms, seven restaurants, 75,000 sq. ft. of convention space, a 17,500-sq.-ft. health spa, 1,640 transplanted coconut-palm trees at $1,000 apiece and water everywhere else. The design...