Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently, few city leaders dared to criticize Barry publicly. Many blame the divisive question of race for the silence. "What he creates is a Teflon coating," explains Washington Post columnist Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. "If you're white, you can't say it. If you're black, you can't say it. In this town, who does that leave?" Race has helped and hindered Barry. Explains friend Carl Johnson: "He's always operating off the backdrop that he's a black male, that he's not supposed...
...Roll contest in Chicago and Houston, readers matched game pieces in a newspaper ad with ones on specially marked packages of cheese. Only a few were supposed to match, but a printing error produced millions of potential winners. Worse, hundreds of people thought they had won the grand prize: a $17,000 Dodge Caravan. In response to customer complaints, the food giant offered a compromise: $250 in cash for winners of the van, lesser amounts for the other winners, and a drawing for four times the original number of prizes...
...should also expect deep penetration of the privacy that surrounds Greene's life in the south of France, where he has lived since the '60s. A genuine coup would be the identity of the Swedish Academy member who, as rumor has it, blocks Greene's path to a Nobel Prize...
...They're creating a new political class that knows how to administer but doesn't know the people in the neighborhood," the article written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author J. Anthony Lukas quoted White as saying. "They talk about competence. I'd rather not be called competent. I'd be offended by that word...
...newspapers and tabloids, and Pons and Fleischmann became as close to house-hold names as two research chemists could ever hope to be. Some observers credited them with the greatest discovery since fire, and others said they would soon be on the way to Oslo for a Nobel prize...