Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the finest part of the book, however, is Angell's thoughtful and probing discussion of the relationship between highly-publicized drug use in baseball and the improbably high pedestals upon which America places all its professional athletes. Angell blasts Commissioner Peter Ueberroth's drug-testing policy as a mere public relations campaign designed to give the appearance that the sport is drug-free, while lamenting Ueberroth's failure to implement a comprehensive program for the treatment and rehabilitation of players who abuse drugs...
...have an inverse relationship," Jim says. "When I lift weights, Jon gets bigger...
Fermina and Juvenal grow to care for each other, but to escape their boredom, they each seeks adventure. Juvenal has a risky affair with a Black woman from Jamaica--a relationship considered to be taboo at that time in Colombia. Fermina locks herself in rooms and smokes cigars, thinking about love and adventure...
...broken triangle repairs itself upon the death of Urbino, who comes to his demise while chasing his parrot from a tropical tree. At the funeral, Florentino arrives to declare his undying love for the widow, and he and Fermina resume their relationship of a half century before, celebrating their union with a riverboat journey. The president of the riverboat company, Florentino has the boat's captain take advantage of the ever-present cholera epidemic to hoist the yellow flag of quarantine so that the lovers never have to disembark and can celebrate their love "forever...
...most obvious example is the Soviet Union's conduct of its all-important relationship with the U.S., especially in nuclear-arms control. Gromyko had a penchant for saying nyet to American proposals. The new crowd has mastered the politics of da. Gorbachev has spun out a dizzying array of initiatives, and he has agreed to U.S. proposals that Western negotiators thought the Soviets would never accept...