Word: nigerian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...square name is Francis Morgan Thompson. "Daley" is a corruption of Ayodele, an African endearment bestowed by his Nigerian father and mispronounced by his Scottish mother. It means "joy enters the house." "That was the only thing," in Thompson's bittersweet estimation, "that they got absolutely right." His London childhood was something out of Thackeray, not Dickens, though classic shadows like boarding schools were involved. "Since forever, I always thought I was going to be the best in the world at something. My school friends used to laugh at me, but I kept searching for the thing that would express...
...Clark, his first taste of squeaky-clean government. Dukakis still did not have much of a social life -- no one remembers a steady girlfriend -- and he did not join any fraternities because they blackballed people. He became a minor legend in college, setting up a dormitory barbershop to serve Nigerian students whose hair the local barbers refused to cut. It was a perfect Dukakis enterprise: high-minded and lucrative at the same time...
Western perceptions of Africa are based on preconceptions and not first-hand knowledge, a prominent Nigerian novelist told an audience of more than 175 people yesterday at Boylston Hall...
...coming force in the N.B.A. is a Nigerian, Houston Rocket Akeem Olajuwon (whose countryman Christian Okoye, incidentally, gained 105 yds. last week in his pro-football debut with the Kansas City Chiefs). Newell says, "I asked Akeem recently about his wonderful footwork. He replied, 'I played much soccer.' The foreign athletes' background in soccer may be a tremendous asset. They have an ambidexterity with their feet. I think if I were still coaching basketball, I'd have my team play soccer...
...Gallo revealed that he and his co-workers had discovered in ten Nigerian patients a new strain related to the AIDS virus. Together with an earlier discovery by French scientists of a second AIDS virus in West Africa, which is now being found in Europe and Brazil, this increases the family of related AIDS viruses. The existence of multiple strains further complicates the development of blood tests and vaccines for AIDS. Gallo insisted, however, that "we shouldn't panic because it is the original AIDS virus that is causing the epidemic...