Word: roote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly offenses have begun to perk up under the new rules. Championships may be won by tightfisted defenses, but the offensive flair that was typical of the old A.F.L. has finally taken lively root in the sport, and this season has already produced 330 more points than last year. Los Angeles Coach Ray Malavasi explains: "The N.F.L. had gotten stereotyped, but the A.F.L. came up with new formations- multiple fronts, multiple coverages, using men in motion -and in the past four or five years, teams have begun to use them...
Washington's hope is that if the Shah works skillfully, he can still press ahead with his liberalization program, broaden the base of political participation, root out corruption and ease the social and economic dislocations that plague the country. Said one high-level U.S. official: "The Shah has to persuade the country that he is sincere in his reforms and that however much Khomeini may be respected, the Ayatullah's way would destroy the country. The Shah has got a tremendously long distance to go. He has never had to build support for himself before...
...wants to reduce Western influence in Iran. The appointment of the new military government, he told TIME Paris Correspondent Sandy Burton last week, "will not change anything. Rather, it will intensify the unrest and strikes ... The goal of our people's struggle is to wipe out the root and the fundamental cause of all the corruption and crimes, which is the Shah and the monarchy...
...vilest deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air," wrote Oscar Wilde. In the California prison system, for years one of the most violent in the U.S., something quite different has taken root: Transcendental Meditation. At Folsom Prison, a state-run storehouse for repeat offenders, more than 250 inmates over the past three years have stopped hating and hitting each other to sit quietly and think their mantras. Encouraged by Folsom's example, authorities at San Quentin ("the Q") and Deuel Vocational Institution have opened their doors to TM programs. The state parole board has asked...
...question is whether, after all the what-ifs and might-have-beens, Jimmy Carter has the will and the courage to fight not only the surface symptoms but also the root causes of inflation. - Marshall Loeb