Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start of this fall, it was Pepper who looked to be the team's biggest talent. He had been a consistent contributor as a junior, dominating in the air and quick on the counter-attack. But a quadricep injury kept him off the field most of the season, forcing him to captain the team from the sidelines...
...impressions left by thebroadcasts, which are televised on PBS eachSunday, have been confined to the level of thecandidate's sartorial splendor and his ability toscore a quick comeback against Kalb...
...announcement was certainly a quick way for the President to steal the spotlight from the expatriate rebel leaders who returned to El Salvador. Three days before Duarte's announcement, Ruben Zamora Rivas, vice president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, returned from exile in Nicaragua to be greeted by a small but fervent group of supporters. Mocking Duarte's embrace of the American flag during his last trip to Washington, Zamora kissed the flag of El Salvador when he arrived. "This is all the amnesty I will need," he declared...
While Chinese psychologists, sociologists and child counselors are quick to concede the shortcomings of single children, they emphatically reject the claims in the press that the little tyrants pose an alarming problem. They are certainly not cause for having more children, a development that China can do without, despite the surplus of parental love. According to Mao Yuyan, a psychology professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, if parents want the atmosphere of a large family, they can organize their neighborhoods into quasi-clans. Children can also be trained in the collective spirit in nurseries and kindergartens...
Struggling to put the scandal behind it, Hutton's board recruited Robert Rittereiser, 49, from Merrill Lynch.The board forced out Chairman Robert Fomon after promoting Rittereiser to chief executive. But the company was no quick- turnaround candidate. Last year Hutton posted a net loss of $90.3 million at a time when other brokerages were prospering. Even attempts to restore the firm's prestige seemed ineffectual. Hutton hired Bill Cosby as a TV spokesman in 1986 and recently changed its motto to "We listen...