Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family, in reverse order." The warmest memories Dukakis has of his father are the evenings he would make it home in time to tuck him into bed. Alexandra Dukakis, Panos' sister-in-law, recalls that Dr. Dukakis would drop out of any discussion about politics, preferring to sit back and watch. "Leave me alone," he would say when asked his opinion...
...haven't felt so worked out in years," smiles the willowy Twinka Thiebaud, a caterer in Los Angeles who abandoned her mountain bike and health club when she was told that gardening might work just as well. Unlike a jog or a sit-up, she found, gardening is a purposeful exercise, a lung-cleaning, muscle-toughening activity that also decorates her house and stocks her pantry. "Every visit to the garden is the same," she says. "I'm just wiped out in a wonderful...
...beautiful. What'd I do?" Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) is quite another species of ballplayer, the kind cursed with self-awareness. All that thinking has made him a journeyman catcher with a decade-long career bouncing through the minors like a Baltimore chop on Astroturf. Now Crash must baby-sit Nuke into maturity, teach him to connive a little in the game's moral geometry. "Strikeouts are boring. They're fascist," Crash tells Nuke. "Throw some ground balls; it's more democratic." With professors like Crash and Annie, Nuke can't miss vaulting to the bigs. Then maybe the grownups...
...strategy he devised to pressure IP is vintage Rogers. He is enlisting the aid of other unions, thus turning one company's dispute into a national issue. He is leading consumer boycotts, demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns against companies who have directors who also sit on IP's board. Thus the targets include Avon Products, Coca-Cola, Bank of Boston and the PNC Financial Corp. of Pittsburgh. In some cases, the leverage will be strong. At Rogers' urging, a district council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is threatening to withdraw $15 million from a banking...
...that the University has failed to actively recruit minorities and calling on Harvard to investigate a "comprehensive plan" to attract minority scholars. The report also says the University is receiving fewer applications than in previous years. And at the Law School, about 50 Black students held a 24-hour sit-in in protest of the lack of minority faculty...