Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many outsiders after the war, he went first to Odessa and then to ) Midland, in the raw western part of Texas where the Permian oil pool was being divvied up by eager investors. So many Ivy Leaguers were moving onto the dusty fields that new streets were being laid out with names like Princeton Avenue. Bush brought his air of civic duty to places that did not have exactly the ethos of Greenwich town meetings. He was clearly interested in politics from the outset, and Playwright Larry L. King, then working for the local Congressman J.T. Rutherford, kept...
...gentle tableau. This is his chance to make amends for 1984, when he only won four gold medals. In the long-limbed company of swimmers, the little tadpole Janet Evans seems to represent all the early mornings and late suppers of all the tiny racers in all the neighborhood pools. The great Olympian John Naber laughed wonderfully when someone suggested that age-group swimming is just another kind of phenobarbital prescribed by parents to drain their children of excess energy and make sure they go to Yale. But on their own, a few of the old salts, like...
...pool, at the track, in the weightroom and on horseback, hopeful Olympians have been getting ready -- straining for two weeks of fame after four years of obscurity. In a special photo essay, TIME' s Neil Leifer captures American competitors Jackie Joyner- Kersee, Greg Louganis, Carl Lewis and others shaping up for the XXIV Summer Olympiad...
According to a University report on affirmativeaction, in 1983, the 886 tenured facultythroughout the university, excluding the Medicalarea, included 4.4 percent women and 5.5 percentminorities. By 1986, the pool of 928 tenuredfaculty included 5.8 percent women and 6 percentminorities
...Dead Pool...