Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of forcing the reader to consider the implications of evil, Knowles succeeds only in oversimplifying it as an ubiquitous force. Evil is inescapable, but the author shirks his responsibility to explain why it emerges periodically in a deranged youngster or a mass murderer...
...tour of Cabrini-Green, a violence-torn public housing project on Chicago's Near North Side, Mayor Jane Byrne noticed a 16-year-old girl sitting in a police cruiser. The mayor asked what the youngster was doing there. She had just been raped, was the answer. The mayor returned home and a few hours later announced that she and her husband Jay McMullen would move into a two-bedroom apartment at Cabrini-Green. Said Byrne: "I asked myself what the difference was between this and other neighborhoods. In most, they get the troublemakers out. That is what...
...shocked if the camp phenom turns out to be a young pitcher. There is more untested talent throwing on Winter haven hills this spring than this organization has seen in a long while, and given the starting-over tenor of the squad this year, Houk may turn to a youngster for his tenth pitcher...
...economic policies. Says one White House official: "We're hearing gripes from some of the department heads." Reagan's confidence in Stockman is high enough to create a little jealousy on the part of new department heads who know less about their programs and budgets than the youngster who has been studying the budget ever since he joined Anderson's staff. When Reagan watches Stockman perform at private meetings, says one participant, "the President gets that pleased smile that says 'This guy's really...
...allow his foot to turn out. So when he walks or jumps, the impact is concentrated on the ball of his foot rather than being more evenly distributed. According to his physician and adviser, Dr. Ernie Vandeweghe, a former N.B.A. player, such conditions are often repaired when a youngster reaches adolescence. Says Vandeweghe: "But by that time, Bill was already a pretty valuable commodity, already on his way to stardom. And he never complained about the pain. He lived and played throughout his life in a great deal of pain. He didn't know that having his feet hurt...