Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nagano, Canada was picked to be among the strongest teams in the tournament, but the United States still had much to prove. When the finals came, however, it was a North American duel. Team USA came...
This year, Coach Karen Kay will have to compensate the loss of defenseman Nicki Luongo (16 g , 29 a), a First-Team All-American who was a perennial presence in the defensive zone. Kay will rely on seniors Kerry Maher (3, 16) and Jamie DeGriselles (1, 10) to fill Luongo's skates at the blue line...
...offense should be as strong as ever. UNH lost forward Melissa Heitzman (25, 23), a Second-Team All-ECAC selection. However, the Wildcats have a host of scoring talent to turn to, including seniors Carisa Zaban (29, 38), a Second-Team All-American, Samantha Holmes (30, 25) and Melissa McKenzie (20, 26), who spent the summer with the U.S. Under-22 Team, and junior Michelle Thornton...
...sentiment in the U.S. courts and political system. But curbing tobacco use in the developing world may require cultural as well as legal changes. "Despite accusations that the U.S. is dumping poisonous products on unsophisticated markets, a lot of people in the Third World actually like to smoke and American cigarettes are a prized status symbol," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "There's a lot of skepticism about anti-smoking efforts...
...doesn't get uglier than this in American politics: Management vs. Labor; Donkey vs. Elephant. That trend was reinforced on Monday with a new plan by the nation's largest association of business owners to step up its support of business-friendly congressional candidates. Portraying itself as the striving entrepreneur being bullied by both big labor and big government, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce unleashed its first-ever plan to donate directly to federal-level political campaigns; about $100,000 will be donated to each of 47 mostly Republican congressional candidates. The chamber says it is worried by many...