Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the evening in the consolation round, Boston University defeated Lowell...
...only the opening round in what seems likely to be a yearlong battle over the budget, but Ronald Reagan threw his hardest knockdown punch. The President called reporters and cameramen into the Oval Office to witness his veto of a bill that would have extended about $2 billion in additional federal loan guarantees to debt-burdened farmers. Said Reagan: "Someone must stand up to those who say, 'Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.' " Moreover, he pledged, "I will veto again and again until spending...
...ruling is the second round of tinkering with the Miranda rule in nine months; last June a 5-4 majority said police could dispense with the warning before questioning a suspect if there was a threat to the public safety--in that case, a discarded gun in a supermarket. Conservative Justice Sandra Day O'Connor dissented from that decision, saying that it "blurs the edges" of a clear rule. But this time it was O'Connor who was picking at the edges, in the case of an 18-year-old from Salem, Ore., accused of involvement...
...topic attracting Bird's research inevitably prompts a fascination aboard the hotel jitneys that deliver the Celtics players to airport or gym. As the Kennedy round table inexorably revolves to sex lives, Bird muses, "Who was that blond actress Kennedy supposedly dated?" This brings smiles. How could anyone know of Marilyn Monroe and not know her name? Another time, when the subject is popular music, Bird puzzles, "Who's Bruce Springsteen?" Dan Shaughnessy, the thoughtful young basketball writer for the Boston Globe, answers softly, "Larry, he's the you of rock 'n' roll." Bird laughs wearily. "Where have I been...
...eager to cut a deal on reducing existing nuclear stockpiles and then worry about still-to-be-perfected space weapons. Said National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane: "It will take time to establish, much less understand, our new strategic-defense concept. That understanding is what we are after in this round...