Word: stay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their part, coaches have a dual role. They must win games while at the same time making sure their athletes stay on top of their academic work. And that is not always an easy task. "I'm sure there are guys coaching who say it should be easier to coach at Harvard than at other places," men's basketball coach Peter Roby says...
Troubles have been unending. After much maneuvering to get NBC to move its headquarters into what Trump originally called Television City, the network decided to stay in Rockefeller Center. Mayor Ed Koch rejected Trump's demands for a 20-year tax abatement, mocking the builder as "piggy, piggy, piggy." Trump in turn called Koch "incompetent" and "a moron," and threatens to help anyone who can unseat him in next fall's election. Citizens' groups on the West Side mounted major opposition, charging that the project would cast a deep shadow over a large area...
...unfriendly skies of airline competition, Braniff has been buffeted severely but refuses to stay grounded for long. The Dallas-based carrier endured a bout with bankruptcy in 1981-82, and has changed hands three times since then. Last week Braniff chairman William McGee announced an ambitious plan to triple the size of the airline's fleet and join the ranks of major U.S. carriers...
...horror of events in Biafra unfolded, Kouchner became convinced that Recamier was right. When Nigerian forces closed in on the hospital where Kouchner was working, the doctors asked to evacuate their patients. The Red Cross ordered them to stay on the grounds that they would be safer in a hospital under the Geneva Conventions. As the troops drew near, many patients bolted into the forest. "It was unbelievable," recalls Kouchner, who is now France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action. "Some of them were | carrying their own plasma bags. Others had been operated on, and their intestines were hanging...
...Barry resigns now, he can leave with thanks from the city for his civil rights advocacy and for two effective terms as mayor. Stay on, and he disgraces Washington by holding it up as a model of political corruption and faces the prospect of losing whatever control he retains over a city that is rotting outside from its drugs and inside from its government...