Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Oakland A's-reviving under General Manager-Manager Billy Martin and flush with funds since Skinflint Owner Charlie Finley sold the team to Levi Strauss Chairman Walter A. Haas Jr. last summer-have passed up the free-agent market in favor of acquiring minor-league clubs to develop young players. Other clubs are following suit...
...talk." The Harvard men who most frequently use the taunt loudly bemoan the dearth of social life and attractive females at Harvard, and openly advertise their trysts with girls at other colleges and junior colleges. Accustomed to being called "Cliffie bitches," and frigid ones at that, Harvard women develop a not-surprising feeling of antagonism towards females from other colleges, whom they frequently see populating the Harvard House parties and dating Harvard...
...promise new clients that they would never have to pay another dime in taxes. In 1975 the two lawyers joined forces with Producers Meyer and Friedman, whose show-biz connections helped catch the stars as investors. A year later, the group leased 22,000 acres in Wyoming, ostensibly to develop coal deposits. The investors signed notes specifying that for every dollar they put up in cash, four additional dollars would be taken out of their anticipated coal-mining profits. That was the gimmick that gave the investors a five-for-one write-off. Those profits never materialized. One excellent reason...
...unpublished diary, Strouse beautifully reconstructs the life of a woman frustrated by the expectations of her father and the examples of her over-achieving siblings. Cut off from many of her brothers' opportunities because of her sex and age, Alice remained far too inhibited by their accomplishments to develop capabilities of her own. Like many single women of her generation, she turned to invalidism instead...
Zhao supports the current leadership and predicts that state power will "mellow in time." But he does not believe that economic decentralization means, as many observers have said, that China will become a "capitalist" nation, with increasingly democratic tendencies. Like most nations, he believes, China will develop a mixed system. Economic improvements will raise the standard of living, which in turn will spur people to ask for greater freedom. In his own field, he notes that "in the past, either you towed the party line and wrote about, things you didn't want to write about, or you didn...