Word: opening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a new zone defense, and the way it works usually leaves one person open underneath and that was the problem," freshman forward Debbie Flandermeyer said. "It [the defense] does take away the outside shot but it gives up that inside position. We could've boxed out the rim better...
Every weekday before sunrise, a large crowd gathers in front of the Gross Court Athletic Club in Woodland, Calif., and waits eagerly for the doors to open at 5:30. What's the attraction? An aerobics class conducted by Jane Fonda? No, these health buffs are standing in line for a chance to climb stairs. Well, not real stairs. The club features those ubiquitous machines that enable people to simulate the healthful huffing and puffing of clambering up steps...
...inspired attacks. If this outburst reflects apparatchik sentiment, legalizing competitive groups would arouse not only outrage but perhaps a concerted effort to oust Gorbachev. The Leningrad protest provoked a countermarch by some 40,000 incensed citizens who proclaimed their support for Gorbachev's efforts to rejuvenate the party through open criticism...
...these men had a more than usually powerful need to assert their manhood through deadly exertion. Glory is at its best when it shows their proud embrace of 19th century warfare at its most brutal. Director Edward Zwick graphically demonstrates the absurdity of lines of soldiers slowly advancing across open ground, shoulder to shoulder, in the face of withering rifle volleys and horrendous cannonade. The fact that the 54th finally achieves respect (and opens the way for other black soldiers) only by losing half its number in a foredoomed assault on an impregnable fortress underscores this terrible and brutal irony...
Egypt attached conditions to its acceptance, as did Israel when it endorsed the plan last month. And since Baker's five points were deftly ambiguous to begin with, the endorsements of Cairo and Jerusalem imply no resolution of their fundamental differences. The major open issues: Israel refuses to meet with representatives of the P.L.O. and insists that talks stick to its scheme for elections in the occupied territories leading to limited self-rule. The P.L.O. is determined to choose the Palestinian delegation and pursue the creation of an independent homeland. The next step is for the foreign ministers of Israel...