Word: wish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peters each resigned as women's team coach after feuding with, among others, Bela Karolyi, Mary Lou Retton's coach. The women's team will not have a head coach in Seoul. U.S. prosecutors even reviewed alleged financial improprieties at the U.S. Gymnastics Federation. Said Peters: "I wish it would all go away...
American business executives wish they could say the same. Their workers are increasingly caught in traffic because commuting patterns have changed drastically in recent decades. The interstate highway system was originally designed to carry motorists primarily from city to city; its beltways were constructed mainly as bypasses for long-distance travelers. Local commuters, by contrast, generally moved in and out of urban downtown areas in a radial pattern, along the paths of mass transit and major thoroughfares. But the majority of work is no longer downtown: the suburbs contain 60% of current metropolitan jobs and 67% of all new ones...
...called Northern policy, an initiative born of Olympics contacts that is designed to shift South Korea away from its rigidly anti-Communist foreign policy. As yet the South has no formal diplomatic relations with a Communist country but hopes for change after the Games, with China first on the wish list...
...Tygerberg. Minister of Health Willem van Niekerk sent regular bulletins from the doctors to State President P.W. Botha. In reply to a worried letter from the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Botha assured him, "We are even more concerned and do wish Mr. Mandela a speedy recovery." Botha added that the patient had said he was satisfied with the treatment he was receiving and had not asked to be examined by outside doctors, as Chikane and Mandela's wife Winnie had requested...
Bush. Well, I wish all this wasn't churning around out there. It's distracted attention from the campaign itself. But it will be under control. I suppose we'll have to wait for the polls, which I always declared meaningless. I don't know...