Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since he dropped out of Yale as a freshman in 1977, Ron has pursued a meandering private path that has not always delighted his parents. Commenting in 1981 on his son's decision to become a dancer, Reagan awkwardly told reporters, "It's O.K. We've made sure he's all man." More recently, Ron has been turning out pieces for Playboy magazine on such subjects as the 1984 Democratic National Convention and the summit between his father and Mikhail Gorbachev. Wearing blue jeans and red Reeboks, Ron had the unprecedented advantage of living at the President's chateau while...
...first meeting with the foreign press, the barrel-chested Namphy exhibited a whimsical personality. He spoke as he cut a zigzag path through a room in the palace filled with busts of past Haitian Presidents. When a woman reporter pressed for specific answers about his plans for the country, Namphy pinched her cheek. Said he: "We have only been the government three days, and those have been holidays. Give us a break...
...Henry Ponder, who took over as president in July 1984. At the time, Fisk was $4.1 million in debt, the price of bringing the dog-eared facilities back to minimum standards was put at $7 million, the creditors were beginning to feel litigious and the only remaining path appeared to be prayer. As Ponder recalls, "The morale was just in the pits, just in the pits...
...athletic wanna-bees stoop so low as to break the law, though. A far simpler path to fashion coolness draws the aspirant directly to Dillon...
...Superior Court began hearing arguments on whether Buck's bucks can be spread more widely around the San Francisco Bay area. Plaintiffs include 28 social service agencies and the trust's own executor, the San Francisco Foundation, which has been criticized for funding such questionable projects as a bicycle path in well-heeled Tiburon. Opposing any change is the Marin council of service groups, which evidently wants charity not only to begin at home but stay there...