Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clark cannot do it all, and despite impressive home-run help from his partner in the so-called Pacific Sock Exchange, Kevin Mitchell, as well as from slugger Matt Williams, the Giants seem outgunned overall by the Bash Brothers & Associates. More important, the A's boast the best pitching staff in baseball: Dave Stewart (21-9), Mike Moore (19-11), Storm Davis (19-7) and Bob Welch (17-8). For a closer in relief they call on Dennis Eckersley, who saved 33 games in the regular season and three more against the Blue Jays in the playoffs...
Imagine living in a 200-bedroom house with a private courtyard, a team of chefs and a fully equipped gymnasium. It would boast a library with a renowned collection, game rooms, movies, a dining room decorated with enormous chandeliers and an extended family of about 500 people...
...paradox is that East Germany's 40th birthday party should have been a glorious moment for the 77-year-old Honecker. Largely because of his grimly orthodox leadership, "Honi" could boast of giving the German Democratic Republic the strongest economy, the finest industry and one of the best-fed, best-housed and best-educated populations in the East bloc. It was the world's most successful -- or least unsuccessful -- example of Marxist government...
...finalists boast qualifications across arange of activities that span the extracurricularbreadth of Harvard. The reason for this, claimsLeverett House's John David Brewington Jr., is thefact that these people, who voters "see" and"like", are the type who "are not satisfied withjust cracking the books...
...other three divisions onto an almost magical plane is the identities of the contending teams themselves. No celluloid Field of Dreams can compete with the real-life resurrections that are a recurrent theme of this year's pennant sagas. In particular, four teams vying for the playoffs boast a distinct personality. Whoever prevails can be said to vindicate not only a theory of how the game should be played but, perhaps, for those who hail baseball as a religion, a philosophy of life as well...