Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more law and order, the idea that the federal government tried to do too much too quickly in the '60s and must pull back now, the white flight to suburbia, all fit together into one unhappy picture. Understanding Brooklyn, where the battleground is big, the players easy to spot and the conflict starting early, helps one to understand how the foul weed of neoconservatism flourishes in soil once overgrown with liberal begonias...
Sanders moves up from the assistant coach spot, for which he resigned his Harvard post last summer. He will immediately take over the leadership of the ailing Celtics, who are off to their worst start in history with an 11-23 record...
...angry words this fall but no violent resistance. Once citizens took to the streets to denounce court rulings. Now a Miami Dolphins fan took to the sky to protest the injudiciousness of a National Football League referee whose early whistle on a fumble cost the local heroes a playoff spot. NFL ... BAD CALL, the skywriter spelled out. It's a far cry from IMPEACH EARL WARREN...
...students, liberal upper-middle-class families and pre-martial law political opponents who constitute his primary opposition.* All three leading Manila newspapers are owned by Marcos' friends, and the five television stations are controlled either by friends or by the government itself. TV was full of spot commercials, to the gaudy music of Land of Hope and Glory, urging viewers to vote. Newspapers gave heavy play to what Marcos said; when opponents answered back, the stories were often buried deep on inside pages...
...Almost from its beginnings, Citicorp Center was envisioned as a place to shop and savor and feast at all hours, an In spot in the inner city. To Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, it will be "a living, positive part of the neighborhood, 24 hours a day, for decades to come. We would like to think of the Citicorp Center as the cornerstone of a new New York...