Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...thought if we could just get one, it snowballs," Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "We just needed one bounce. But you have to make your own bounces. We looked tired. [The loss of] Johnny [Weisbrod] hurts. He's a sniper. If we had him, too, who knows what could've happened...
...only had to make first saves," Hughes said in defense of his D. But he had to make 34 of them...
...order to win, Gantt needed a heavy turnout of blacks, who make up 19% of the state's electorate and normally vote Democratic. That he got. But Gantt also needed at least 40% of North Carolina's whites. There he fell short by five points. The fractious campaign produced a huge vote in white precincts and an overall total of 52% to 48% in Helms' favor. The margin, like the strategy, was almost identical to Helms' three previous victories...
...judgment would put his family on the sidewalk. "It's okay, Your Honor," said Straus, "just stick it on my tab!" It is only across the table that you would not want to face such fellows. That, as one old female player told Holden, "is a tough way to make an easy living...
...forms of official racial preference, the one that helped make Harvey Gantt a wealthy man is the least defensible. In awarding valuable broadcast licenses, the Federal Communications Commission gives extra points for minority ownership and civic involvement. Gantt, then mayor of Charlotte, N.C., was part of a group that snared a franchise in 1985 and sold it almost immediately to a white media company. (In a crowning idiocy, the FCC -- having deliberated exquisitely, often for years, over the relative worthiness of contenders for a license -- places virtually no restrictions on how soon or to whom or for how much...