Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes, that was the best effort we had all season," O'Hara said. "I had a feeling it would take only one goal to break it open. We were afraid that we wouldn't get the one goal we needed. Soccer is such a fickle game...
...inherent in a Black mounting a serious campaign for president are significant," he says. "They range all the way from the obvious physical danger--the danger of assassination--to the fact that this is not the kind of thing that the political establishment of this country really welcomes with open arms. So people who felt they had a stake, for example, in the Democratic party saw this--the idea of a Black running or even supporting a Black for president--as a very traumatic and destabilizing thing with respect to their own involvement with that party...
...atmosphere worries Pope John Paul II, who is striving to tighten doctrinal discipline in the church. In 1986 Rome revoked the license of Father Charles Curran to teach theology at the Catholic University of America because of his open questioning of the church's stand on sexual morality. A more sweeping crackdown was hinted at three years ago, when the Vatican proposed a policy that would allow a bishop to strip a school of its Catholic status if it did not meet standards of orthodoxy. The policy, which is expected to be released in final form sometime next year...
...their fix. But the root cause was nothing more sinister than the hope of the down-and-out for a slice of the American dream. Since the '60s, low-income families from El Paso's barrio, 15 miles to the northwest, have been moving here, lured by the open spaces and the hype of half-acre lots for as little as $1,000 down and $100 a month. Water, they were assured, would be forthcoming. And it was, until 1979, when the influx became such an avalanche that El Paso's public utility put an abrupt halt to further water...
...Quayle, who often seemed as lost as an actor missing half the pages of his script, struggled to overcome his own Throttlebottom image -- and lost. The one-sided debate did not instantly alter the Electoral College arithmetic favoring George Bush, but it did appear to have kept the race open as the two presidential contenders head toward their final face-off in Los Angeles this week. Wavering voters on the verge of committing to Bush may now pause, reflect and wait for the next act in the TV docudrama...