Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...minor injuries or the size of appearance fees than any struggle for national honor. The capitalist side was further weakened by no-shows among European stars more concerned with championships scheduled on home turf. Most East bloc stars came, but many wondered how long they would continue to enjoy special privileges, including subsidized travel, priority housing and victory bonuses paid in Western currency...
...origin of Kipling's ode is only one of many quaint facts in this rambling, opinionated history of the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S. An English journalist of hip leftist views, Hitchens was inspired by the question he asked himself one night outside a Los Angeles hotel, where Prince Philip was to bestow the Winston Churchill Award upon Ronald Reagan. Why is it, Hitchens wondered, that Englishness looms so large in the American imagination, particularly among the rich...
...have suddenly become a hit on the charity fund-raising circuit. Participants in the derbies typically donate $5 to adopt a duck, which has a number printed on its bottom. The rubber duckies are dumped en masse into the water; as they float downriver across the finish line, a special duck trap scoops up the winners...
...barriers can be daunting for minority students, many of whom have a hard time succeeding in the impersonal atmosphere of regular school. Love of Learning purposely recruits promising youngsters from the nearby Charlotte- Mecklenburg public school system who are in the middle -- not at the top -- of their class. Special consideration is given to those who have the potential to be the first in their families to go to college. "I call them diamonds in the rough," says Love of Learning director Brenda Tapia, who is also Davidson's assistant chaplain...
When performing the music he once shared with co-band members, Paul should have at least made it his business to acknowledge John, George and Ringo. But only Lennon--whom McCartney called an "old friend"--got a special dedication in a short rendition of "Strawberry Fields Forever." The idea of McCartney mentioning another Beatle only once seems a bit stingy...