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Coach George Ford's seventh season may see Keller-Sarmiento at an uncustomary center position, as Ford seeks a more potent offensive combination. Captain Michael Smith, an outstanding mid-fielder, should also provide some needed spark in the opposing zone...
...Jody Powell and Domestic Adviser Stuart Eizenstat. There are many other influential people around the President, of course, such as Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and Pollster Patrick Caddell. But for the final balancing of major policy decisions, there is no higher or more potent tribunal than the President and those five original Georgians. One day when Carter was chairing a National Security Council meeting on Iran, and he had been hesitant on some of the options laid before him, he excused himself for a few minutes to take a call from Rosalynn...
Ramos knew he had it when he was 13. He only weighed 120 Ibs. and stood 5 ft. 6 in. tall, but he knocked out a 22-year-old with his potent left hook. By the time he was 14, he had won 24 fights, 18 of them knockouts, in matches arranged by the various gyms where he worked out. Ramos also maintained a 79 average at Lehman High School and somehow managed to win five letters in other sports: track, cross-country, swimming, basketball and football. He has a lot to thank his mother and father...
Monthly fluctuations in the unemployment rate are one of the most closely watched and politically potent trends in the economy. Half a century after the Depression knocked one worker in four out of a job, the legacy of hollow-faced men standing in breadlines remains a haunting national memory...
...voice of Osborne is the voice of Thersites. He rails against the world around him, which he abominates as degraded and contemptible. The rhetorical force of his tirades provides the driving tempo of his plays. What is fascinating about his most potent dramas-Look Back in Anger, Inadmissible Evidence, The Entertainer-is that the hero whiplashes not only the world but also himself...