Word: batting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SWIFT IS THE KIND OF COP who doesn't have to worry about pockmarks. Unlike the physically imperfect lawmen who now populate prime-time TV--the Dennis Franzes and Jerry Orbachs--Mac's skin is invincibly smooth. Nothing, it seems, can scar him as he dodges punches and pummels bat-wielding thugs with an assured agility that seems to say, "Hey, I'd look even better toppling Christy Turlington on a sandbar in Maui." Happily for Mac, his appearance isn't all he has going for him. Smart enough to have developed an immensely profitable software program, this New York...
...depth of concern about women's issues on campus. Second, as Lewis rightly suggests in his memo, a "small working group of students and members of the College administration" should be appointed "to discuss gender issues that are of concern." We can think of a few off the bat, such as the small number of female tenured professors and female undergraduates in high positions in student organizations...
...auction for $189,599. So eager was Claudia Schiffer's betrothed to purchase the hot wheels from 1989's Batman that he paused during a show in Raleigh, North Carolina, and bid from the stage. Why? Surely not because of its alleged female-magnetic properties. "I live in a bat cave right now," says Copperfield, whose taste runs to the gothic. "So I might as well have a Batmobile." Plus, it may well go unnoticed in the town that loves him best, Las Vegas...
Innocent publicity isn't what it used to be. There is talk of Ad Board action; Franklin Steen, the Director of Computer Services, categorically waves FAS policy around like a baseball bat; the Chair of the FAS Committee on Information Technology predicts apocalyptic results: that an advertisement "can bring the system to its knees...
...maintenance worker then arrived, "grabbed" the bat and took it outside, McCombe said...