Word: pros
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...think there's a definite chance of making it," said Blair. "In the pros, you never expect a starting role or anticipate that you will make it to the parent club. You just work as hard...
...hurdled the final obstacle to an early poll last week with an unexpectedly strong showing in elections for local councils. Some 27% of Britain's registered voters, or about 12 million people, cast ballots to fill 12,280 seats throughout Britain -- except in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Political pros called the bellwether vote the "world's biggest public opinion poll." The returns seemed to remove any doubt that Thatcher was poised to hit the hustings...
...promoting revolution at the time -- or sportswear at any time. Photographed on jumpy, grainy black-and-white tinted Super 8, edited to look at first like some family-heirloom home movie but in fact adeptly synced to the hard rhythms of the song, the Nike spot rousingly shows several pros (including John McEnroe and Michael Jordan) and lots of gleeful amateurs working themselves into sweaty transports of athletic fulfillment. "We tried to make a kind of radical sports documentary," says Paula Greif, who produced and directed the spot with her partner Peter Kagan. "It's about emotional moments." For nostalgists...
...nearly a year the government and the opposition have been arguing the pros and cons of constitutional reform. Two weeks ago the opposition's two major leaders, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam, pulled out of the New Korea Democratic Party, the largest antigovernment group in parliament, because they felt the N.K.D.P. president was about to agree to a compromise supported by Chun. Citing the "mess in the opposition," Chun last week said he could not deal with a party unable to "resolve its own internal problems through dialogue." Critics charge that the president encouraged the divisions, negotiated only...
...football eventually spawned something called professional football. But it also spawned something much more heinous: modern college football. This game resembles professional football in most respects, but bears two distinct differences. First, in modern college football, you can attempt a two-point conversion after a touchdown, while in the pros, only a one-point try is allowed. Second, in professional football the players are paid directly, via salaries; in modern college football, the players are paid indirectly, via salaries, sinecures, and sneakers...