Word: sad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPORT: The sad ordeal of Mr. Baseball...
...going to kill her, then a restraining order really isn't going to do anything," says Barbara Shaw, director of Project Safeguard, a program for battered women in Denver. "Sometimes there aren't a lot of safeguards other than disappearing." Lisa Bianco seemed to have accepted that sad fact. She told friends she wanted to improve her work skills, save some money and then move away before her ex-husband was eligible for parole next year. Denied the warning that she had requested -- and had every right to expect -- she apparently never got the chance to run for her life...
...often find them trying to put on New York accents while they serve you in a restaurant, just so they can meld into the background and not be found out," says Ray O'Hanlon, the national editor of the New York City-based Irish Echo newspaper. "This is rather sad...
...increased communication is not enough. The sad fact is that all too often, Harvard acts like just another big developer in the city--buying and selling buildings with little regard for how these moves will affect city neighborhoods...
...sad that Lorenzo and the Bush administration were willing to exploit such self-interest against the strikers. If commuters really wanted to act in defense of their own interests, they would have realized that the profit motive that encourages Frank Lorenzo to drive his companies into bankruptcy in order to drive out unions is the same attitude that creates shoddy service and higher fares...