Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...university strongly defends its conduct. Says athletic director Brian Quinn: "We had a clearance for him to play from outstanding physicians." But school officials were concerned enough about Gathers' condition to supply the basketball team with a defibrillator, a medical instrument that could be used to help resuscitate any player or fan who suffered a heart attack. It was used unsuccessfully on Gathers the night of the tragedy...
...wall. We should come out of our snail shells. Also, a lot of people are demoralized. They have overthrown the old system, but they see only ruins all around. Instead of rolling up their sleeves, they are waiting for help. They feel inferior. East Germans have been in an ambivalent situation for a long time. On the one hand, they were proud of having the best socialism compared with all those "untidy" Russians and Poles. They felt like students at the top of their class. They felt contempt for the rest of Eastern Europe. This was coupled with feelings...
...There is a fear. But it can't be relieved by complaining. We can help shape what our life should be. West Germans will have to accept what we want...
That might have been enough for many preachers, but O'Connor wanted to give the devil his full due. He warned in his sermon that "diabolically instigated violence is on the rise" and asserted that heavy-metal rock music can "help trap people, especially teenagers," into dabbling in disgraceful Satanist practices. In particular, the Cardinal denounced rocker Ozzy Osbourne's tune Suicide Solution ("Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker/ Suicide is slow with liquor . . . Suicide is the only way out./ Don't you know what it's really about...
...runs the bankrupt U.S. operations of Australia-based Hooker Corp., which owns the B. Altman and Bonwit Teller department-store chains. Such troubled but solvent corporations as Wang Laboratories, the Lowell, Mass., computer maker that laid off more than 1,500 workers last year, have hired "workout" advisers to help pare down their debt. By pursuing a workout instead of bankruptcy, management can maintain control of the company and generally reorganize faster. "There's more room to maneuver outside of court," says Richard Feintuch, a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, a leading Wall Street law firm...