Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW: The second bomb in as many days exploded on a Moscow city bus Friday morning. At least 27 were injured, eight seriously, when TNT hidden in a cloth bag tore the front end from a bus about three miles north of the Kremlin. President Yeltsin and Mayor Yuri Luzhkov blamed the attack on terrorists, closed the main roads leading out of Moscow, and flooded the city with police. "Luzhkov thinks that Chechens or criminals opposed to the new anti-crime policy are responsible," says TIME's Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich, who doubts the separatist guerrillas are behind the attacks...
...jump. The vaulter has been rooted in hypnotic concentration for almost two minutes when, without warning, he explodes down the runway. His legs blur into the scorching stride of a 100-m sprinter, but his upper body is like no sprinter's on earth. It looks more like a bag of rocks lashed together with steel cable. He hauls all this bulk to the end of the runway, then plants 17 ft. of fiber glass into the ground and proceeds to rocket, upside-down, toward the bar hanging nearly 20 ft. above his head. He has barely cleared...
...this dream that I was supposed to bring the inside of the boat to practice," says Betsy McCagg, "and I forgot it. So we sat in the boat, but there was nothing to hold the seats up, and the boat collapsed. It was like sitting in a plastic bag, because I had all the parts in my house." Teammates Annie Kakela and Mary McCagg, who is Betsy's twin sister, laugh, incredulously but nervously, at the notion...
...Southerner, regardless of the fact that he has alienated the South on issues like gays in the military," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. "But even if he ends up losing those states, he still wins by forcing Dole to spend money on states that should be in the bag." Dole's lead in the South has deteriorated as he has tried to move to the center to capture votes in the West and Midwest. Carney contends that Dole must move back to the right to get Southern voters excited about him again: "But if he does that, he risks...
...food court at the CambridgeSide Galleria, a woman with a black Prada bag sits sipping a capuccino from Au Bon Pain, while at the next table two teenage boys in baseball caps and T-shirts snack on hamburgers and fries from Arby...