Word: riley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...A.B.A.'s conservative course is unlikely to shift in the near future. In any case, new President Wallace Riley of Detroit would like to de-emphasize issues, at least for the year he holds office. His top priority is increasing the group's membership, which at 300,000 includes only half the attorneys...
...Jesse Quintero, a teacher whose students are mostly illegals. "It's a different breed." And while the waves of illegal Mexican immigrants are exceptionally poor, the barrio's long-entrenched Mexican Americans inhabit a world more like William Bendix's TV L.A. in the 1950s show The Life of Riley: working-class comfortable. The middle class, perhaps 30% of L.A.'s latinos, seldom use the vaguely militant term chicano...
Kareem's "angry period"-Lakers Coach Pat Riley's phrase-has passed. "He has been measured and judged on a different scale his whole life," says Riley. "He has always been expected to carry the team, carry the world. Basketball is a double-standard game. The referees will protect anyone else from the centers, but the centers have to protect themselves. They're penalized for how big or how strong or how good they are. Life must have always seemed unfair to Kareem, but I don't think he thinks of it that way so much...
Sawyer's lawyer, Lloyd Riley, argued that the prosecution's portrayal of his client as a latter-day Fagin was "absurd. He doesn't have the mental capacity to execute such schemes." But U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton decided last week that the coach had indeed taught his team to steal more than bases. He sentenced Sawyer, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of unarmed robbery, to a maximum 30 years in prison. Ten gang members had earlier received four to 24 years...
...Howard Sands (H) d Eric Riley 0-0 0-2 2 Warren Grossman (H) d John Sobel 6-0 5-7 6-2 3 Cave Beckman (H) d Dave Friedman 6-0 6-2 4 Rob Loud (H) d Rick Shafer 6-2 6-4; 5 Larry Scott d Glennis Merrit 6-1 6-3 8 Farley Weiss (P) d Ken Kleinfeld...