Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volleyball on the beach at Jones Beach in the summertime. There's a lot more to it than that. But it was miracle. It was a miracle on 218th St. It was going to be there...Then in the second half, anything they tried; they put their 11th string in, and still they were making yardage...
Other Communist countries, notably Hungary, have tinkered with market mechanisms. Bulgaria, for instance, has allowed the establishment of a string of largely autonomous companies that offer bonuses or other incentives to workers if warranted by profits. In Poland, some 75% of farming is in private hands, as are some small restaurants and shops. But never before has a Communist state challenged the tenets of Marxist economics as fundamentally as has Deng's China. Soviet officials may complain that the Chinese have "gone too far," but such criticism leaves the reformers undeterred. Says a Chinese party leader: "We should never regard...
...Harvard-Columbia games has scored at least 20 points... The loser has scored 20 points just three times in that span... Harvard is looking for its sixth straight winning season. If it's successful, it would mark the most winning seasons in a row since a 10-year string from 1959-68... If the1
Reagan's lowest-common-denominator approach to politics is the inevitable cost of the democratization of the electoral process. In the past two decades, a long string of insiders who have wooed the right special interests and nabbed the right endorsements have either been toppled in the primaries or have been so weakened in them that they lost the general election. The changes in the nomination process and the domination of television have forced candidates to communicate differently and, in a completely positive way, have taken the decision-making power away from the insiders. Is this so bad? The Democrats...
Henry seems to grasp this reality, at least in theory. He writes in his introduction: "The real campaign is the string of public events that voters observe, not the hidden web of strategy memos and fund-raising dinners and portentous telephone calls." Bravo. The problem is, Henry doesn't follow through. With few exceptions and obscured by his wonderfully elegant writing style, Visions of America gives us yesteryear's headlines with a dollop of conventional wisdom to serve as analysis. Since essay-writing appears to absolve him of the requirement to report, Henry can opine that "the most antagonistic major...