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...will be an example for the rest of the nation." Added University of Pittsburgh Historian Samuel Hays somewhat pessimistically: "It's almost as though you're seeing the death of the manufacturing city right here. And my point is: don't resurrect it. Why try to rebuild something that is gone...
...make our government more responsive to the problems which plague citizens and rebuild their confidence in our country," Cox said...
...guard and linebacker for the old Browns, and he coached under Sid Gillman in San Diego and Don Shula in Baltimore. When Noll arrived, the Steelers were the pushovers of the N.F.L.; they had won just 18 games in the previous five seasons. Noll had no choice but to rebuild the team through the annual college player draft. His very first pick: Defensive Tackle Joe Greene. The following year Noll drafted Quarterback Terry Bradshaw, and the Steelers had their defensive and offensive linchpins for the decade ahead...
...coin of the realm. Having become a de facto Soviet satellite two years ago, the benighted nation is now in danger of becoming the de facto 16th republic of the U.S.S.R. That sorry prospect leaves the U.S. to polish its intelligence community's crystal ball and to rebuild the original "security perimeter" south of Afghanistan with new alliances, fresh diplomatic offensives, and reinforced military deployments. Of course, the U.S. can also hope that the Afghan guerrillas will eventually wear out the superior Soviet force in a war of attrition. The odds are against that, but then, the odds were...
Douglas' fierce individuality and his support of the little man grew out of a boyhood of poverty in Yakima, Wash. To help support his family, he labored as a field hand alongside migrant workers; he climbed mountains to rebuild legs weakened by polio. It was on these hikes that Douglas developed a love for the wilderness that he would later celebrate with dozens of books on travel and wildlife. Throughout his career, he would flee the U.S. capital to return to the Western mountains or explore remote areas of the world from the high Himalayas to the Dead...