Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hartwick] was outhustling us today," Captain Robert Bonnie said. "They were winning the 50-50 balls...
...have to win games," Captain Robert Bonnie said. "We have to get hot and go on a winning streak. We have to win our regional games and win them by one or two goals...
...leadership, then Bush should win. Since James Baker took charge of the ill-focused campaign in August, the Bush forces have consistently outflanked, outthought and outfoxed their Democratic rivals. "The Republicans punch a button every four years, and all the old pros show up," says longtime Democratic wheelhorse Robert Strauss, chafing on the sidelines. "The Democrats bring out a bunch of bright, gracious people, who reinvent the wheel." Until the exiled John Sasso was summoned back on Labor Day weekend to become the de facto head of a triumvirate that includes campaign manager Susan Estrich and chairman Paul Brountas...
...White House correspondent for Newsweek's Washington Bureau, was returing to find out what had happened to the friends who started out life in the projects with him, and how they had survived the deterioration of one of the most dangerous and depressed urban areas in the world. The Robert Taylor Homes have 19,000 official residents, although many more people than that live there unofficially, causing desperate overcrowding. Those 19,000 comprise less than one-half of 1 percent of Chicago's population. An average of 10 percent of the city's armed robberies, assaults, rapes and murders occur...
Brothers gave me my first glimpse into the Robert Taylor Homes, and what life there can do to people. This book shows how utterly degrading publicly sanctioned slum living is. The steel mesh fencing that encloses the balconies of each building to prevent people from falling symbolizes the hopelessness that pervades the project. There's a great view of the city skyline, but through the bars of a cage it seems very far away...