When Rose broke into major-league baseball, the use of amphetamines, or “greenies” as the players called them, was an aboveboard practice. There were more players who took them than there were who lifted weights. The greenies were frequently dispensed by team trainers.

They really put me in the hot seat during that last job interview. They asked lots of tough questions.

Paul disdained pan and scan DVD releases, always holding out for the widescreen special editions.

Lien-chiang county inaugurated a program of socialist education and ideological training almost as soon as the Tenth Plenum had concluded, but quickly discovered that problems at the basic level were so numerous that a new rectification campaign would have to be conducted before a more ambitious program could be properly launched.