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Word: benches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overturn or reduce the award. Journalists, high-priced lawyers, Wall Street traders and more than 200 onlookers last Tuesday squeezed into a cramped fifth-floor room in the Harris County Civil Courts Building, anticipating a decision. Casseb's verdict was expected at 1:30 p.m., but after taking the bench he called a recess so Pennzoil and Texaco could conduct last-minute discussions. Finally, at 5:17 p.m., the judge read his ruling: the jury's decision will stand. On top of the award would go $3 million a day in interest payments. Total amount now owed to Pennzoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Texaco Star Strikes Out in Houston | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Meanwhile, freshman Fred Schernecker continued to spark Harvard off the bench, contributing six points...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Stanford Runs Past Men Cagers; Crimson Comeback Stalls, 78-62 | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...previous contests, Roby has often been forced to count on top performances from the bench. Non-starters had contributed over 42 percent of the Crimson scoring going into last night's game...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Stanford Runs Past Men Cagers; Crimson Comeback Stalls, 78-62 | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...gasp resounded through the 850 partisan spectators when the frosh quintet of Tedd Evers, Fred Schernecker, Mike Gielin, David Lang and David Wolkoff arose as one from the Harvard bench and moved to the scorer's table...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Manhattan Ambushes Men Cagers 81-69; Schernecker Leads Frosh Comeback Try | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...punk rockers, and Russian and Israeli emigres, as well as homosexuals. The mingling of these groups is best savored on a warm Friday evening along West Hollywood's main artery, Santa Monica Boulevard. There, a black-clad Lubavitcher family straight out of 19th century Lithuania strolls past a bus bench shared by a sneering heavy-metal-music freak with a slime green Mohawk and a drag queen done up as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Across the way, a convenience store advertises European specialties in Russian Cyrillic characters. And up the boulevard rolls a procession of white stretch limos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Hollywood: Exotic Mix | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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