Word: rebounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...practical possession of this sport. Boston aside, no team has repeated an N.B.A. championship in over 30 seasons. Even the Celtics have not done it since 1969, the year that Lakers Center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar left UCLA. Now Jabbar leads the league in tenure and tonsure, but no longer rebounding. And despite his 109-102 rebound in Game 2, the Celtics were having an unusually hard time casting themselves as underdogs in pursuit of a second straight title, a 16th overall...
...signs that the Federal Reserve Board is easing monetary policy and letting interest rates fall have raised expectations that the economy will avoid a recession and rebound rapidly. Said Board Member Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota professor who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy Administration: "The Fed is riding to the rescue." Agreed Alan Greenspan, who served as chief economic adviser to President Ford: "The odds definitely favor a quickening of the economy...
...went to work and devised its own rescue, which a few weeks ago prompted Mayor Ed Koch to crow about New York's financial condition: "We are healthier than any other city in the country." Few New Yorkers seemed to remember that one of the reasons for the rebound was Jerry Ford's firm no. Such are the rewards of refusal...
...perfect game" impressed the 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. senior center and fascinated him. "On a one-shot deal, we can beat anyone in the United States," the coach urged, and had Pinckney not believed him, would what the others thought have mattered? Though only by two points and a rebound statistically, he outplayed Ewing profoundly. Three Ewing dunks in a rattling row amounted to an invitation to shudder, but Pinckney was inspired...
...eight Oscars were not a record; 1959's Ben-Hur set the mark with eleven little gold-plated statues. But it was a triumphant rebound for Forman, 53, the Czechoslovak director whose five awards in 1976 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were followed by two commercial disappointments, Hair and Ragtime. "The Academy members are fans of people like Milos who take chances and succeed," says Director Ivan Passer, one of Forman's best friends. "They like Cinderella stories, and they like to make them come true. That was in their power this year, and they...