Word: 10s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nadia Comaneci vaults to seven perfect 10s in Montreal...
Days later, Basil Stewart, an unemployed 25-year-old father of three, drove two hours from Brooklyn to Greenwich to spend $175--mostly crumpled up fives and 10s--on Powerball tickets. Could he afford it? "No comment," Stewart replied. More disturbing still was the fact that 28-year-old waiter Ernie Kovic, was also on a Greenwich lottery line, funneling all the money he had been saving for college--$3,000--into Powerball tickets...
Sometimes there are one and five-dollar bills still salvageable by carefully pressing out the creases. But the bank only gives 10s and 20s, so that may be all there is in her little change purses. And who wants to spend the entire last $20 on photocopying, anyway? It seems extravagant to commit that much money to photocopying even if it will eventually be used up in the remaining years here...
...Olympic events, in fact, it was, on every level, Spain, and not just because the country claimed at least 13 gold medals, after winning only four in the past 96 years. The Chinese team was also a consistent surprise, and its women alone were everywhere one looked -- scoring all 10s in the uneven bars, winning an archery shoot-off with bull's-eye after bull's-eye after bull's-eye, even striding off with the 10-km walk. The Unified Team forgot its differences long enough to enjoy one last triumph, and the Americans had good reason to cheer...
...prevent the kind of hydraulic failure that caused a United Airlines DC-10 to crash in Sioux City, Iowa, last July, leaving 112 dead. Expected to take effect this summer, the order calls on U.S. airlines to install a hydraulic shutoff valve in the tail section of 243 DC-10s at a collective cost of $7.7 million...