Word: unite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rain-crazed Mass kickoff unit got so disoriented at one point that it lined up on the wrong end of the field--at the Harvard 35--after the Minutemen scored a touchdown. Fortunately the officials noticed the problem, and the teams were squared away. It was just one of those days...
Another phenomenon spawned by drug enforcement efforts is a black market in clean urine -- a vial can sell for as much as $50. "It's being sold in the streets by anybody who can make a buck," says William Hopkins, director of a New York State drug-abuse unit. "A guy who's making $50,000 a year is not going to lose his job because of bad urine...
Born in Wales and educated in England, Stringer started at CBS News as a researcher and soon became a producer of documentaries. As head of the CBS Reports unit, he oversaw acclaimed documentaries like the five-part series The Defense of the United States, as well as The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, the program that triggered a much publicized libel suit by General William Westmoreland. (Though Stringer did not have a major hand in the documentary, Westmoreland's lawyers revealed that in an off-the-record talk with a reporter he had voiced doubts about the objectivity...
Similarly, though a white condo owner's voice of rationality may tell him that the purchase of a unit down the hall by a Black professional is not about to lower the property values in a mid-town building, he resists accepting his new neighbor. How does he reconcile his preconceptions about Blacks to this situation when the only Black person he knows personally is his cleaning lady? He may even know other Blacks professionally, but he still clings to his ability to distance himself socially...
...controversy began last summer, when Jacobs heard Robertson make a speech supporting military action by U.S.-backed rebels in Nicaragua. Jacobs thought McCloskey, a Korean War veteran who had been assigned to the same unit as Robertson, had once singled out the evangelist as a hawkish conservative who had avoided combat service. Jacobs, who served as a combat infantryman with the Marines in Korea, asked McCloskey to provide greater detail...