Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flaherty suffered a split lip and minor abrasions...
...Rudolf Steiner School in New York and "very self-conscious" of his wheelchair and quadriplegic condition. A boy with a hearing aid was visiting the school, which has an almost entirely ablebodied student population. Mattlin remembers. "I looked at him and thought. "He looks pitiful. It's just a minor disability, but he identifies as a handicapped person. You can't really relate to him as a whole human being because he seems so dominated by that disability.'" Mattlin recalls thinking at the time that "the thing is to be recognized as something else...
...much as $2,000 for options to buy the car, and De Lorean is confident that the high sticker price will not scare away customers. Says he: "Our buyer is someone in the $70,000-a-year income bracket or over, and he is pretty much unaffected by minor economic travails...
...bosses answered his challenge by firing him. Tigers Hall of Fame Outfielder Al Kaline tries to explain Martin's kamikaze past: "I think it's his desire to win. He thinks he can do it better. He wants to give advice on the scouting, tell the minor league managers what to do, and he goes a little bit too far." Says Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner, whose differences with Martin constituted a four-year national soap opera until the two parted for good in 1979: "I'm happy he's in a situation now where...
Gorky's real name was Vosdanik Adoian. His father was a carpenter in Armenia, his mother the descendant of minor nobility and priests. He renamed himself as a defiant cosmetic gesture: "Arshile," he explained, was the Russian form of Achilles, and the writer Maxim Gorky was one of the current heroes of the Left...