Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third, Forrest Gregg, arrived last season, like Brown a deposed Cleveland coach, also fired by Modell. There seemed no more reason to expect Gregg could get by the specter of Brown and be his own man than to imagine the Bengals would get by the specter of the Browns and be their own team. But both things happened stunningly fast, and the changed stripes are symbolic...
...days, even in past bastions of integrity like science, which has traditionally placed the search for truth above all other goals. But the Spector scandal has shaken this edifice in special ways. Besides wrecking the career of a gifted young researcher, it severely damaged a major man of science, Specter's sponsor, Cornell Biochemist Efraim Racker, who was ultimately responsible for supervising the results. More important, beyond whatever personal trauma may be involved, the case has put the entire research community on trial in the public mind. Once again there are questions about how much cheating goes...
...will be other issues--Afghanistan, Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, Namibia, the Persian Gulf, maybe even other Genevas--that preclude a view of current talks as a be-all and end-all. If the U.S. makes concessions this time around--even if concessions mean a step toward lessening the haunting specter of nuclear war--much credibility and resolve is lost for future encounters. In the final assessment. The "zero-option" when weighed against the price of securing arms reductions, will actually count less than zero...
...Press Club, an estimated 200 million watched the speech, which was beamed overseas by the U.S. International Communications Agency.) In an extraordinarily measured and thoughtful address, perhaps the most statesmanlike that he has ever given, the President offered a four-part proposal to free the Continent from the specter of nuclear war. It was designed both to reassure the Europeans of his Administration's peaceful intentions and to put the Soviets on the defensive. The essence of his message was what has become known in diplomatic parlance as the "zero option." Reagan announced that the U.S. would forgo plans...
...always in the background there lurks the specter of the numbers, haunting every Cuccia performance. "I think in many ways he hasn't lived up to my expectations because he had some of the best passing statistics in the nation and he's not the passer I thought he would be," one teammate says. And it has to bother Ron Cuccia to call a one-for-two effort a day's work when he knows he is capable of throwing for 500 yards. But that's where the learning aspect of college football comes in, one reason he came East...