Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first," he says, "basketball was something I did when the lights were on in the playground just because I liked it." He was Lew Alcindor then, a bookish Harlem Catholic constructed of high-tension wires connected at right angles. He developed a hopping hook shot, calling to mind a praying mantis assembling a foldout lawn chair, out of early necessity: all his straightforward attempts were being blocked. He made a style of coming at things from a different angle...
...condominiums--and the stores that have accompanied the developments--were designed with a specific consumer group in mind, Alstein says. The developers have targeted their condos toward "empty nesters"--affluent couples who want to sell their houses in the suburbs after their children have gone off to college...
CCLN plans to curb the effects of overdevelopment by aiding individual neighborhood groups and urging the City Council to adopt a variety of downzoning measures, Geer said. He added that the city did not have a comprehensive development plan designed with city residents in mind...
...dance with the man who brung him. Moreover, he ensured Bush's selection as Reagan's Vice President, which wasn't easy. "What I'll admit to, but George never will," said Baker in 1981, "is that the Veep thing was always the fallback. It was always in my mind. That's why, at every opportunity, I had him cool his rhetoric about Reagan...
...participants who trickled back from the Moscow conference last week confirmed Kennedy's state of mind. Robert McNamara recalled hearing Kennedy say something just like those words. And McGeorge Bundy, J.F.K.'s National Security Adviser, said that no one he recalled had any intention of leaving the White House...