Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lola Oberman carries binoculars around her Maryland house all day, just in case a good bird appears at a window. And bumper stickers saying I BRAKE FOR BIRDS had better be taken seriously: on the highway, birders have been known to lose control when a good bird flies over. Pete Bacinski, one of New Jersey's best-known birders, totaled his Chevy Nova when he took his eyes off the road to look for his bird guide...
...lavish expenditure of time and energy. "It's just something I have to do," says Richard Turner, a professor of fine arts at New York University, falling into the familiar language of helplessness that marks the committed birder. The backyard and occasional fanciers should consider themselves lucky, according to Pete Dunne of the New Jersey Audubon Society. "Those people are still in control of their lives," he says. "For the rest of us, birding controls us. We're addicts...
Passed over in the USBL draft, Duncan made the squad in a regular free agent try-out. About 50 players showed up, but, according to Harvard Coach Pete Roby, "Arne just went down there and played so well [in the try-outs] that they couldn...
...However, he would lose his arrogance in bush stops like Wichita and Denver, shuttling to and from the big leagues for two years. In 1984 an aging Expos player soon to be a youthful Reds manager noticed him at once. "I was playing first base in Montreal," Pete Rose says, "when he fouled a ball straight back that caught some cement or it would have gone all the way out. I thought, 'Damn...
...matter how well intentioned their bosses may be, many smokers feel persecuted by their firms' antismoking policies. "Just call me Sneaky Pete," says a salesman of novelty items who would face being fired if his smoking habit was discovered. Says he: "It's incredibly unfair. I was a smoker when they hired me, and then, out of the blue, I'm supposed to stop just because the boss says so." Some employees fear their chances for advancement may be choked off by their smoking habit, though favoritism toward nonsmokers is rarely explicit. Len Beil, director of human resources at Pacific...