Word: train
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make films. My sensibilities are a cross between Woody Allen and John Waters. In about eight years I'll retire from show business and devote myself to politics. I probably won't run for office, but I will do fund raising for people I believe in. People whom I train (laugh). I have plans for taking over the world...
...lived there for years, and New Yorkers even named a street in his honor. But these days would dapper Duke Ellington feel at ease taking the A train 2 1/2 miles north from midtown Manhattan to black Harlem? Not if he believed the vision this New York City community conjures up in the minds of apprehensive whites: a postnuclear landscape of poverty and blight, where crack dealers plan gang wars in cratered tenements. To most Manhattanites from the wealthy southern part of the island, Harlem hardly exists, except as an old, obscure head wound -- the beast in the attic...
Elaborate facilities and swelling crowds are transforming spring training. The New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals have moved into new and slicker stadiums since 1987. In 1982 only 778,000 fans visited the 18 teams that train in Florida; last year the number nearly doubled, to 1.3 million; an even higher total is expected for 1989. Similar gains have been made in Arizona's cactus league, where eight teams work...
Until 15 years ago, for example, Whitten says that after the age of 25, it was believed there would be approximately a one percent annual decline in physical activity due to a person's decreasing maximum lung capacity. Studies of athletes who train into their middle ages, however, show that this is not true, he says. Whitten has expressed some of his ideas on aging in an article called "Aging, Sexuality, and Exercise," which he wrote for Psychology Today...
...Harvard Graduate School of Design brings its students to the arboretum, as does Simmons, Wheelock and Boston University, which use the property to train their education students in botanical teaching and other sciences...