Word: representive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aged feelings at 26 are rampant in tennis. At 32, Jimmy Connors, Curren's victim in the semifinals, has realized a bitter truth: "I hate to hear anyone say, 'When I was playing . . .' because nobody gives a damn about when you were playing. Nobody cares about anything but now." In...
Lam Ton, from Viet Nam, is already a U.S. citizen, and he too did well with a restaurant, the Mekong, at the intersection of Broadway and Argyle Street in Chicago. "When I first moved in here, I swept the sidewalk after we closed," he recalls. "People thought I was strange...
These changes do not represent social decline or breakdown. The newcomers bring valuable skills and personal qualities: hope, energy, fresh perspectives. But the success stories should not blot out the fact that many aliens face considerable hardships with little immediate chance of advancement. Avan Wong, 20, came from Hong Kong...
This is a society that is characterized by a generalized ethical ambivalence about rough-and-tumble measures. A lot of people who are now advocating a counterterror capability have in mind our emulating the Israelis. But America is not under enough of a threat for us to do that. We...
Although the plan would call for renting anywhere between 30-50,000 artifacts at a time to Perot, this would at most represent about 3 percent of the museum's 3,000,000 African, South American, Asian and native American pieces.