Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groin fields -- that often cause more problems than they solve. "The Army Corps of Engineers has had a long, checkered history," says Gary Griggs, a professor of coastal geology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Still, he admits, the Army Engineers "have done better recently." Says Charles Rooney, the corps's chief of civil projects in New York: "The state of the art in coastal engineering has improved. We understand more than we used to. We build smaller to allow the bypassing of sand. We try to be less disruptive. Done correctly, groin construction and jetty construction...
Officers were honored at Wednesday night'sceremonies for service "above and beyond the callof duty" and their conduct in life endangeringcases. The prestigious award for valor, whichhonors bravery in the face of personal injuryrisk, went to John Rooney who chased and disarmeda burglar...
...WEIGHT WATCHERS FAVORITE RECIPES -- 9 FIT FOR LIFE, Diamond and Diamond 9 10 WORD FOR WORD, Rooney...
...comparisons are made," he says, "but I can't see them. Maybe if I could stand outside myself. Cus used to tell me that every fighter felt some nervousness just before he fought. But that's when I'm most at ease." D'Amato's surrogate, Kevin Rooney, does the training now, literally by the numbers. "Seven-six- two," he barks from ringside, ordering combinations of punches. An inactive welterweight, symbolically unretired at 30, Rooney has a fighter's mask featuring a wide and prideful nose that once made the short acquaintance of Alexis Arguello. Rooney recalls the day Tyson...
...Tyson still has "his 20-year-old days" (a bachelor, he proclaims his accessibility to women), Rooney considers him "a mature fighter, a very elusive boxer -- smart. He doesn't have a high school diploma, but he's on the verge of a master's." Studying the old films, Tyson likes "to look in the background and see all the people who are dead." But he also noticed the way Joe Frazier sometimes bent forward into Ali's flurries; when Marvis Frazier did the same thing, Tyson flattened Joe's son in 30 seconds. "I really believe, deep down...