Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Green Bay Packers' offensive line coach Jerry Wampfler speaks highly of Moore's stint in Wisconsin. "He's a very intelligent guy. He was football smart, and he got a lot out of his ability," says Wampfler. "We put him at tight end on the goal line because he certainly wasn't noted for his speed, but when the ball was thrown to him, he caught...
...first of Moore's two career touchdowns--both with the Packers--happened almost by accident. Although he was only supposed to be a decoy, the other tight end forgot to enter the play, and Moore was left to receive the ball. "The quarterback threw the ball so hard that it wedged in between my face mask and shoulder pads, so I didn't have a chance to drop it," he recalls...
...African firm would now be free to compete around the world with the British bank. Said he: "We are a very powerful bank, and we can continue extending our business abroad." Experts consider the bank's $116 million price tag a bargain for the South Africans. Moreover, because of tight currency rules that prohibit export of capital except at unfavorable exchange rates, the British Barclays will keep the proceeds from the sale on deposit in South Africa for at least a year...
Besse's murder took place as another terrorist drama unfolded in a West Berlin courtroom. Opening amid tight security, the trial of Palestinians Ahmed Hasi and Farouk Salameh brought forward evidence that the Syrian government was linked to the March bombing in West Berlin of the German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian...
...black bulletproof Mercedes limousine pulled up at the crowded downtown plaza as the final United Left rally before the balloting in Lima's tight mayoral race was getting under way. Peering through the dark tinted windshield, the man behind the wheel discreetly -- and expertly -- gauged the size and mood of the crowd. Then he made a quick decision: the candidate for mayor put up by his ruling center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (A.P.R.A.) needed help. The limo wheeled around and headed back to the presidential palace half a mile away. Bucking a tradition that has kept Peruvian chief executives...