Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best bullpen in the business, led by the team's bulwark. Bruce Sutter (9-8, 35 saves, 3 04). Sutter had an abysmal month-long drought in which he was awful, with an ERA over seven Since then, just the sight of him warming up has been enough toquell nascent rallies and give opposing managers nightmares. With a week and a half remaining, Sutter has an outside shot at surpassing John Hiller's mark of 38 saves...
...endless presidential primaries, media blitzes, and limited American potency. Frequently pausing to dish out anecdotes left out of his earlier books, he runs through several thematic chapters--"The Great Society," "The Great Inflation," "The Reign of Television." In typically rapid-fire style, he shows how each of those nascent trends came to a head in 1980. And in the second half of the book, he shows how those developments and Ronald Reagan's strategy of skillfully using them to his benefit, made him America's 40th president...
...percent favoring it. But the Faculty refused to recognized the body's legitimacy because it did not have a hand in the formulation of a new government. Now, a student council with support from 43 percent of undergraduates is deemed legitimate. Assuming that most of the meaningful issues the nascent council will confront will bring it into conflict with administrators or the Faculty, the unctious desire to appease both these groups shown by the constitution's framers at every step casts doubt on the new council's potential for furthering student interests...
...administrators at Harvard Real Estate suggest that the University maintains "generally satisfactory" relations with its tenants? Simply because HRE officials have no desire to improve communications with their own fiefdom. In this case the result may be the strengthening of a nascent union designed to protect tenants' rights...
...meeting, HRE attorney Daniel Polvere filed an abnormally long--20 page--brief for Harvard, and stated that the rent board would open a "Pandora's box" of possible tenant complaints by siding against the University. HRE officials apparently believe it is time to make a decisive stand against the nascent tenants' union...