Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line linking the city's downtown core to the fast-growing suburb of Gresham is expected to be ready for riding in 1985. The Federal Government has funded $300 million of the project's $310 million capital costs, thanks in large measure to the lobbying efforts of Neil Goldschmidt, former Portland mayor and Secretary of Transportation under President Carter. Despite Washington's munificence, Portland, with an unpopular mass-transit tax on employers and a noisy constituency of diehard automobile fans, has taken pains to economize: once they leave downtown, the trains will speed along an existing right...
...with a high solemnity. Some last words have the irony of inadvertence - as when Civil War General John Sedgwick was heard to say during the battle of Spotsylvania Court House, "Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " But premeditated last words - the deathbed equivalent of Neil Armstrong's "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," the canned speech uttered when setting off for other worlds - have a Shakespearean grandiloquence about them...
...center of the New Testament. Stated nakedly, superficially, the proposition sounds perverse and even self-destructive, an invitation to disaster. Those skeptical about the larger uses of forgiveness, in fact, tend to think of that principle as a little weak-minded. Rabbi Neil Gillman, assistant professor of philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, does not believe that a private impulse toward forgiveness, symbolized by the Pope's visit to Agca, can be translated into a public policy of reconciliation. Jewish tradition, he says, links forgiveness to behavioral change. "There is a healthy amount of realism...
Blair had to survive a couple of waves of pressure applied by Eagle linemates Neil Shea and Doug Brown later in the period, be fore Harvard got its best break of the night With six minutes left in the stanza, Harvard's Rob Wheeler collided with B C's Bob Emery in center ice, leaving a loose puck and a clear path to the Eagle net for sophomore left wing Rob Ohno, who deked and scored with a backhander...
...Domenic Campedelli (Jim Chisholm, Ed Rausao) 1-34, H Rob Ohno (Rob Wheeler) 16 01. B.C. Neil Shea (Scott Harlow. Kevin Stephens) 19 22. B.C. Chris Delaney (Stevens Kevin Houle...