Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive Campanis uttered a stream of chilling biases. "I don't believe it's prejudice," he said of a system that has entrusted just a handful of teams to a total of three black managers -- Frank Robinson, Larry Doby and Maury Wills -- retaining only Robinson in Baltimore at the moment. "They may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager or perhaps a general manager." That's when the screaming really started...
...moment came in May of 1980. Bush was charging ahead without a mathematical chance of overtaking Reagan. With the candidate on the road, Baker virtually yanked him from the race by confirming to reporters that the Bush effort in California was a scam. Bush was furious and convened a senior staff meeting in Houston. The candidate, like all candidates, could not have cared less about the math. He wanted to continue. Baker had a different concern. He knew Reagan would be "terminally ticked off" if Bush pressed ahead into California, Reagan's home state...
...trying to ignore for the moment that the decision about implementing a partial random lottery housing system disregarded student opinion. I'll pretend that, without considering the merits of university decisions, students should have no voice in making the policies that affect only them. With the random lottery system, there are already enough problems without raising this objection...
...developer called the tune, and the council danced as fast as it knew how. The council, in a moment of befuddlement, adopted some easement deal amendments which it thought were harmless. But when the developer protested, the council entered into a complex rigamarole to excise those amendments...
...moment of Bundy's death the 300 men and women gathered outside the prison started down that path. How much resepct for the sanctity of human life did they have, as they sang to the tune of "Old Smokey": "He bludgeoned the poor girls/all over the head/Now we're all ecstatic/Ted Bundy is dead...