Word: hudson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June of this past season, for example, Yankee pitcher Charles Hudson appeared on the leaders' board for winning percentage even though George had farmed him out a few weeks earlier. Steinbrenner just doesn't realize that baseball is a game of streaks, and even the finest player can have a bad week, a bad month, or a bad season...
...fame can be as fleeting as an image on a television screen: Olliemania is a bust. Joel Shelton of Boulder sold (at $12 each) fewer than 500 shirts bearing North's picture. John Lee Hudson of San Francisco is canceling plans for a mail-order Ollie doll ($19.95) because he received only 200 orders. And the Old Man River Doghouse has replaced the Oliver North sandwich with the Piggly Wiggly: a frankfurter topped with bacon and cheese. From hero to hot dog in just two months...
...driving the Harvard Shuttle Bus which malfunctioned on July 31, 1987, en route to Hudson, New Hampshire. The following is what occurred. As we were leaving the city, I began to notice an increasing heat on my right foot which was pressing down the gas pedal. At first I thought there was a malfunction in the foot heater, which all Shuttle Buses have, and which would have accounted for the heat in that one particular location. The heat increased to the point where I decided to pull the bus off the road and check it because it was becoming...
Hollywood can't stand to think much about AIDS either. The disease's two most celebrated victims, Liberace and Rock Hudson, may have worked there, and the movie industry may have nearly as high a concentration of gays as New York City. But the town has not been devastated by AIDS. Says a writer: "In the top echelons of Hollywood, people are always looking over their shoulder. Caution leads to sexual sobriety, and that could save their lives...
Better-off youngsters who live in the suburbs are equally inaccessible to many employers who are desperately trying to fill entry-level jobs, though for a different reason. Says Oscar Ornati, professor of manpower management at the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration: "Kids in Hastings-on-Hudson ((a community in wealthy Westchester County, north of New York City)) don't get jobs wrapping fast food. They get jobs as summer para- legals or interns at corporations...