Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ancient rites that opened the 18th Winter Games were, in fact, apt for an Olympiad that some had been crowning the Attitude Games. As beach volleyball brought tank tops and bikinied dudes to the Summer Games in Atlanta, snowboarding, most conspicuously, looked to be smuggling a radical edge and Technicolor glint to the mild-mannered Winter Games. With the world-champion shredder refusing to show up, and even the Chinese athletes showing off their backflips in freestyle skiing, it could look as if the I.O.C. were a global subsidiary of MTV. (CBS even hired former MTV veejay Kennedy...
...many Americans who've never before set foot in Japan, Nagano may at first look like Atlanta with jet lag--an "industrial and technology-intensive city," as its brochures boast, larger than Newark, N.J., and lined along its broad boulevards with a cacophony of gas stations (called Apple), coffee shops (called Apple Grimm) and supermarkets (called Apple Land). There are seven Kentucky Fried Chicken parlors in Nagano, its literature attests, two Mister Donuts and a Denny...
BANKRUPTCY FILED. TONI BRAXTON, 30, slinky rhythm-and-blues vocal superstar whose two albums have sold more than 15 million copies; in Atlanta. Claiming debts of more than $1 million, Braxton says she is "effectively insolvent." Last December she sued LaFace Records, to be freed from a contract she considers unlucrative...
...Atlanta at Chicago...
...Atlanta 108, Milwaukee...