Word: wish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish for a competitive men's basketball team on occasion, or a football squad to crack the top-20, we should at the same time realize that for Harvard to be competitive in those sports would require the school to hand out scholarships and significantly lower its admissions standards. Top academic schools like Duke and Stanford have chosen to do that, but I firmly believe that Harvard should...
...stories about the huge consumers he has managed -- not including the ones who had to take time to dry out, like the young pitcher Bob Welch. Interestingly, Newcombe had approved of Lasorda's office tap. "It kept the players from grabbing six packs to go," he says. "Now I wish the Dodgers would stop selling alcohol in the stands after the fifth inning...
...favored bureaucrat, including an apartment in the capital and a dacha, and never once regretted his decision. "I want to be buried in the Soviet Union, in this country which I have considered to be my own since the 1930s," he said. Last week he got his wish, after a funeral with full military honors...
...Beit Sahur, a town near Bethlehem, a group of local men started an agricultural cooperative in March. Walid Hawash, 29, runs the co-op's shop, selling seeds, tools and herbicides at cost to any residents who wish to start "victory" gardens. "We are doing this so the people can feed themselves," says Hawash. Last week Israeli soldiers threatened to close Hawash's store. "They say what we are doing is politics," says Hawash. "But we are only trying to live." Nearby, freshly turned earth marks a new garden that will feed 42 families come harvest time. Hawash obliquely acknowledges...
...Israelis are devising new ways beyond curfews, roadblocks and shop closings to reassert their authority. Palestinians who wish to see relatives in detention camps can no longer arrange their visits through the Red Cross but must go through the tedious process of seeking permission from the military government. Anyone applying for a birth certificate or marriage license must prove that all government fines have been paid, while Palestinians traveling to Amman must first traverse miles of red tape...