Word: sought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Because minority coaches are so sought-after,as soon as you get good, you get raided, you moveup," says Art Taylor, director of urban youthsports at the Center for the Study of Sport inSociety. "[An Ivy School] is not really a steppingstone. [If you're an Ivy school], you've got tolook for someone who wants to be at this level...
Williams has hired an important black activist, Phillip Pannell, as an adviser, and Pannell opened a campaign office in Ward 8, Barry's home turf. Williams also sought and won the endorsements of two key Barry confidants. Williams is on a roll now. Two years ago, he was awkward at community meetings, but he has learned a common touch. At the basketball-court forum, he patted shoulders and grabbed forearms--physical gestures once uncomfortable to him. And he's telling a more personal story. He is the adopted son of postal workers who raised eight children, he says over...
...issued on the MD-11 refer to potential fire hazards. A 1996 advisory mandated the installation of an extra control-cable guard in response to "reports of burnt electrical wire cable in the cabin attendant console that was caused by the chafing of the wire cables." Another, in 1997, sought to correct "chafing of wire bundles" that could cause smoke in the cockpit...
...least 15 years, so I don't worry about short-term losses." In fact, aside from corporate profits and stock prices, most other leading indicators are pointing briskly upward. Orders from American factories rose 1.2% in July, the strongest performance since November. As investors around the globe sought a safe haven for their capital, long-term interest rates continued their slide to 5.3%, a silver lining for the U.S. in the cloud over emerging markets. Those low rates in turn have boosted the used-housing market, which recorded an all-time high of houses sold in July. Housing values, another...
...sought-after prey of collectors and taxmen alike also bought the luckless Steve Trachsel membership in an equally exclusive fraternity--the college of Tracy Stallard and Tom Zachary, fellow victims of the pursuit of baseball immortality...