Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Buchwald expressed a similar passion for Ronald Reagan, calling him "a very honorable person," who because of his age "said he would be willing to be examined by a White House doctor, and if he found Reagan was senile or mentally incompetant he would resign from office. Now the problem with this is how would they know?--Anyone who wants to be president of the United States has to be crazy to start with...
...BOSTON remembers Ed Logue on its 350th birthday, the master planner has gone to work on a tougher problem--redeveloping America's worst slum, the South Bronx. The South Bronx is the same size as the city of Boston. And here the similarities end. There are no Beacon Hills, Back Bays, picturesque waterfronts or vital downtown office areas in the South Bronx. One-third of its population is on public assistance. It represents a magnification of the worst of Boston's problems, without any of its strengths...
...never had a stamina problem; he actually seems to get stronger in the later rounds. In the "Thrilla in Manilla" against Joe Frazier, he took a terrible beating in the middle rounds, only to pull himself together and score a 14th round TKO. Against Shavers, too, he entered the last third of the fight behind in the scoring and "went down to the well," as he says, for that extra reserve...
...Liston, Foreman, Shavers--and while he's been down, he's never been in danger of being knocked out. I don't think he can be knocked out--not even at 38. Ali's greatest strength is his ability to take a punch; Holmes's blows will pose no problem...
Hejduk began the house series while teaching at the University of Texas at Austin, only a year after graduation from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. The house series reflects his early academic orientation. Hejduk set up his problem and planned a highly systematic and methodical process of investigation: he would design one house each year for ten years, each time exploring different aspects of the situation...