Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COLUMBIA [67]: Kristina Tyer 6-4--16; Christina Dugger 3-0--6; Kathy Gilbert 7-2--16; Charlene Schuessler 3-1--7; Jenny Beubis 3-2--8; Debbie Persico 0-0--0; Erika Wilson 0-0--0; Charlene Williams 3-0--6; Karin Kolstad...
Unless the unexpected happens, Debi Thomas will become the first black athlete to win a medal in the Winter Games. Records are not immaculately kept on the point, but apparently it was 1980 before U.S. Bobsledders Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley, along with their Canadian counterpart Bob Wilson, broke the color line. Several more black athletes will compete in Calgary, including Canadian Hockey Player Claude Vilgrain. If part of the problem is lack of black involvement in winter sports, that is changing too. E. Rory Flack, 18, is the most prominent of a growing number of black athletes following Thomas...
Congressman Charles Wilson, a tall Texas Democrat with a signature swagger, carried a grudge against the Defense Intelligence Agency. In Pakistan in 1986, the agency had refused to fly Wilson's companion, a former Miss U.S.A.-World, to a town near the Afghan border where the Congressman was to inspect the progress of the guerrilla war. Just before Christmas, Wilson took revenge. An influential member of a Defense Appropriations subcommittee, he tucked a provision into a spending bill that stripped DIA of two planes, and he eliminated the agency's exemption from Pentagon staff cuts...
...Wilson's sleight of hand escaped the notice of most members of Congress, as well as of President Reagan, who signed it into law. And no wonder: the legislation that included the provision was 2,100 pages long, and it lumped together 13 appropriations bills that should have been passed individually. In one gargantuan gulp, the omnibus bill amounted to $603.9 billion, or nearly two-thirds of the total funding for Federal Government operations in fiscal...
...Piano Lesson remains for the most part rewarding, brilliant stuff. It shows, as Fences showed, that Wilson is an extraordinary, unique voice in contemporary American theatre. What the play lacks, however, is a sense of the limits of its expansive beauty. You won't forget Lesson, but you may not be able believe it either...