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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...verbal leader," said Elway, 27, "but I guess I'm going to have to say something." He called the team to order. "I was so disgusted with the way I played in that game. The effort just wasn't there. I decided that my life in football is too short not to enjoy it. Every game should be fun, and when you're having fun, you play your best. I tried to get that attitude going on the team. Right now everyone is having...
After one brutal experience in Littauer Hall, I dreamed about writing a thesis on the bureaucracy of the Government Department, where the tutorial office does just about anything short of charging students for giving the time of day. I could analyze to internal workings of department, pinpointing the inefficiencies and making suggestions, i.e. mass firings...
Block that Shot: Mohler has blocked 24 shots this year, and now has 93 in his career. The 6-ft., 8-in. center has 79 rebounds this year, and is 30 short of 400 boards in his career...
...cinemas, where SRO could mean not standing room only but single-room occupancy. In the suburbs the exhibitors moved into malls, where their "plexes" had all the charm of welfare clinics. The malls may have saved movies, bringing picture houses into bustling new neighborhoods, but the salvage job was short on pizazz. No wonder the studios, legally barred since 1948 from owning theaters, were exploiting the laissez- faire mood of the Reagan Administration to buy up theaters and get back into exhibition. The exhibitors couldn't hack...
...took over the party apparatus. When George Bush's partisans woke up, a series of bruising lawsuits followed. After last week's debacle, the result may be a contested delegation. Says Field Reichardt, a moderate who helped draft the Michigan plan: "We should never have done this. In the short run, it's causing our party to self-destruct...