Word: stay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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October 17, 1987: Crimson sports teams take to the Big Green seas and, for the most part, stay afloat...
...players, drinking after the game is like chewing and scratching during it: it's baseball. "A couple of beers," Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden shrugged shortly after he left a drug center last year. "I know the people at Smithers tell you to stay away from everything -- beer, whiskey, chewing tobacco, everything. But beer's not a problem with me." The Padres, Dodgers, Pirates, Angels and White Sox have yanked all the alcohol out of the clubhouse. Padres Reliever Goose Gossage reacted like Hagy and is now with the Cubs. "Poor Babe Ruth," Gossage grumbled. "He couldn't play today." Sure...
Rocard's Cabinet, the Fifth Republic's first minority government, will stay in place during the short campaign. It includes many familiar Socialist heavyweights, among them Roland Dumas in his former post as Foreign Minister, Pierre Beregovoy as Finance Minister, Pierre Joxe as Interior Minister and Jack Lang as Culture Minister. The novelty is provided by a limited number of non-Socialists, including Centrist Senator Michel Durafour as Civil Service Minister, Supreme Court Jurist Pierre Arpaillange as Justice Minister and Businessman Roger Fauroux as Industry and Foreign Trade Minister. Last week senior Mitterrand aides telephoned eight members of the outgoing...
...occupied. The uprising's leaders set opening hours for stores, usually three a day, and frequently call full strikes. But the army is determined to rule commerce and now often shutters shops in reprisal for days at a time. Schools have been closed for five months, leaving children to stay home or join the stone throwers in the streets. With few jobs in the West Bank and resistance to working in Israel itself, most men spend their days idly ( meeting on street corners. A Jalazun laborer who made $400 a month before the intifadeh is now lucky to earn...
Though the poor are most affected by the uprising, middle-class Palestinians also must adjust to the new reality. Edward Lama feels trapped between threats from the uprising's leaders to close his souvenir shop on Bethlehem's main street and orders from the army to stay open. Most days his door is open, but he spends the hours sipping coffee in his deserted shop, while his two dozen employees slump behind counters of glittering gold, olive-wood crucifixes and brass trinkets. Business is down more than 50% since the intifadeh began, and Lama's income does not cover...