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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest comeback story of the day was probably Menick's, however. He ended up with 21 carries for 112 yards, but it wasn't as simple as that. His fumble on the kickoff return put Holy Cross in position to score its second touchdown. His ability to bounce back from the mistake let Harvard get back in the game...
...Moines Country Club had never seen anything like it. For a week in July, more than 250,000 Iowans, including Governor Tom Vilsack, came in droves to applaud, cheer and gawk at the stars. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED called the event, the 20th Senior U.S. Open golf tournament, "the biggest thing to hit the state since Pope John Paul II's visit," which happened 20 years earlier. The mere arrival in town of Arnold Palmer, about to turn 70, made headlines in the statewide newspaper, the Des Moines Register...
...born, Princeton-educated businesswoman charmed and cajoled, wined and dined her way to the forefront of the correspondent banking business in the heady days of Russia's breakaway from communism. Muscling out American rivals through her web of Moscow connections, she turned the Bank of New York into the biggest U.S. servicer of Russian accounts, moving along the flood tide of cash rolling out of the ebullient new economy in return for lucrative bank fees. When she wanted to snatch the business of the rich Moscow-based Inkombank away from Republic National Bank in 1992, says Emanuel Zeltser, a lawyer...
...biggest movie of 1984 was "E.T.," the highest-grossing film of the 1980s and the fourth highest of all time. Many a senior at one time snuggled into bed along with a stuffed alien...
...That was the single biggest news event that affected me and my family," says Dipti S. Kandlikar...