Word: team
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September, you will be serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court to do a guest shot as color commentator for a local baseball team, the Greensboro Hornets. Red Barber, meet your New York exchange student...
Accordingly, the new Tory government she named on Saturday emerged as a diverse team ranging across a wide political spectrum. To be sure, a number of relatively unknown conservatives who make up Thatcher's "inner team" won places in the government. But many top jobs went to relatively liberal party veterans who have reservations about Thatcher's attitudes and judgment, and who will act as a brake on some of her more abrasive economic, social and foreign policy views...
...that day there was also a small fire or explosion of hydrogen gas, created when the reactor's high temperatures disassociated the cooling water's molecules. But the NRC team did not learn of it until two days later, the investigators disclosed, because of another snafu: harried by what one official called the "hassle factor," controllers had apparently rolled up a crucial recorder sheet at the height of the accident, thereby inadvertently concealing key information...
Perhaps the bad break on that shot epitomizes the linksters' season. The team finished with a "very mediocre" 7-5 record, Dales said. "Throughout the season we could never get five good scores--we'd always get a couple but just not enough," he added...
...There's a lot of talent on the team--it's just a question of getting more practice time. The team should play well next year because there'll be a lot of seniors and they should have a lot of free time to practice," Dales said. "We'll be decent...