Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catholic school--Boston College--briefly moved into the spotlight on the strength of Doug Flutie and his "Hail Mary" pass against Miami. BC lost the national championship that year to the Mormons...
...obvious irony: trying to save lives, the father ordered the use of a defoliant that is strongly believed to have caused his son's malignancies and his grandson's disability. But this approach would give My Father, My Son a melodramatic unity it neither has nor needs. The strength of the book resides in its unassuming format, an album of family voices (father, son, wife and mother) that describe without self-pity or too much self-pleading the grave misfortune that has overtaken them...
...indicated more about New York's Democratic political scene than it did about the power of money. New York liberals not only follow primary campaigns closely but turn up at the polls in greater numbers than most other groups. This time around they certainly provided most of Green's strength. In a low turnout that attracted just 13% of New York's 3.8 million Democratic voters, Green won by 34,000 votes. Says Washington Media Consultant Carter Eskew: "One lesson is that paid media in a primary is less effective than it would be in a general election...
...that percentage to drop to as low as 70% in 1990. Within the shrinking network slice of prime-time audience, the CBS portion has narrowed, from 29% in 1982-83 to 26% last year. NBC's helping, on the other hand, has grown from 24% to 27% on the strength of such winners as The Cosby Show and Family Ties. This year only NBC was able to raise its prime-time ad rates, hiking the average cost of a 30-second commercial by 5%. Both CBS and last-place ABC were forced to cut prices by as much...
...Mandela also admitted to being moved by the American's visit to her red brick home in Soweto, the sprawling black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Calling King "a symbol of what my people continue sacrificing for," she added, "We draw a great deal of inspiration from her strength and courage." For King, who was in South Africa for the installation of Desmond Tutu as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the highly charged meeting was one of the less controversial moments of a week that drew her into the vortex of the country's complex racial politics. King...