Word: balboa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walk past the office in the MAC on the stairway landing, and her eyes light up with a familiar yet eerie gleam of devilish interest. A few moments later, she's punching her way up the steps to our room in Leverett, holding her arms up in victory Rocky Balboa-style as she reaches our door...
...squad has been largely overhauled by Sampson, and the fight for starting positions has been fierce. Stalwarts, including the popular Uncle Sam-goateed defender Alexi Lalas and Marcello Balboa, have been benched. Lalas' spot has been taken by David Regis, a fluid fullback who was born in Martinique, lives in France and plays in Germany. Regis is married to an American, and he got his citizenship papers just before the U.S. team left for France. Regis was tutored for his citizenship test by other players, and soon after becoming an American answered his phone to hear the national anthem being...
...former Canal Zone, meanwhile, another diplomatic tiff concerned Panama's decision to award a contract to run the ports of Cristobal and Balboa to Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. in a deal that Ambassdor Hughes said was unfair to American bidders. And in a confused transaction that gives potential investors little confidence, the government leased land to Hutchison that was also needed by the Panama Railroad and the local airport authority. The resulting legal mess was only recently resolved...
...seen as a genial buffoon. Even the metallic voice of a video game tells him, "You have no authority." He seems almost at ease with his fate--one of those rare men who don't dare to dream or think of themselves as hero material. Imagine an older Rocky Balboa who got clobbered until he was half deaf, and whose Adrian dumped him to marry the town scumball...
Rendell is the Rocky Balboa of American mayors. When he took office in 1992, the nation's fifth largest city was swimming in red ink and its credit was at junk-bond levels. But like his fictional Philly counterpart, this former D.A. came out swinging. He balanced the city's books by facing down municipal unions, privatizing jobs and saving money on everything from leases to insurance. Now he gives mayoral lessons: both Los Angeles' Richard Riordan and New York City's Rudolph Giuliani have got pointers. He still has headaches--people and jobs continue to flee the city...