Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Philadelphia must depend on sharp-shooter Hersey Hawkins and mouth-shooter Charles Barkley for its playoff hopes to be realized. For Washington, only Jeff Malone deserves mention in any worthwhile publication. And New Jersey, well, minus Buck Williams and with problem-children Sam Bowie and Joe Barry Carroll, Coach Bill Fitch will probably be hoping by January that he was back coaching in the Garden. Here's hoping Mookie Blaylock can keep the fans laughing in the Meadowlands, and not because of his play...
Some soldiers make immediate and tragic exits. Bill Haneke is energized by President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural speech calling for a new generation to bear any burden, meet any hardship. He returns from Southeast Asia minus a right leg, a left foot and an eye. Tommy Hayes, the son and grandson of West Point major generals, rejects the sanctuary of graduate school. In a letter home he writes, "My country has invested a great deal in me as a soldier. I should like to repay that investment." The price is his life, taken in the jungle north...
...minus side, it may be that some of the things I do this year are very naive, [things] I would not have done with more experience," says Mas-Colell. "On the plus side, perhaps it's a new face on the block. Perhaps I am less conditioned by the previous way to do things...
...midfield will be minus Baverstock, the team captain and the mainstay of center midfield for the past two season. Baverstock injured his knee during pre-season and is expected to be out three to six weeks...
...regular polling firm, Connecticut-based Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, to conduct a survey. On one day, 25 interviewers telephoned 500 people at random and asked them 22 questions for an average of six minutes. The results were put into computers and tabulated, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5% taken into account. They were then sent to Nation editor Robert T. Zintl in the Time & Life Building in Manhattan, where they were incorporated into the cover story...