Word: offerring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, even as events offer great promise, they simultaneously remind us of a past we would rather overlook. The moments of shocking history--which must be confronted--simply prove again the intractable nature of opposing ideologies and economic systems...
...diligence of Robert A. Caro, the biographer and political historian who has made L.B.J.'s saga into an obsession and virtually a life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas, whose Common Ground (1985), a social history of ethnic Boston, was well worth the wait...
...They are in search of a life-style that can be bought, often dearly, in the dozens of stores crammed into the crowded area. Along Takeshita-dori, a narrow street in the heart of the district, are shops with curious names -- Octopus Army, Short Kiss, Good Day House -- that offer a variety of identities. There are button-down collars and plaid pants for the preppie look, floral prints and batiks for the Third World ethnic look, tennis and soccer equipment for the ultra-fit look. One store sells nothing but Batman gear for the Caped Crusader look...
...most up-to-date crime news from around the country. Explains network President Billy Prince, a former Dallas police chief: "There's a terrible lack of knowledge among police. Information is changing so fast that it's impossible to keep up by sending men to a boring seminar. We offer cost-effective bits and pieces...
That style is, of course, one of the main reasons the former Olympian chose Europe over a bigger-bucks offer from the Hartford Whalers. Harvard Coach Bill Cleary once called MacDonald the "best pure skating player" he had ever seen. In Switzerland, MacDonald gets a lot of room to do what he's best at--skate and score...