Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tennis Association was accused of rigging the seeding system to create an Andre Agassi vs. Pete Sampras final. One player walked out, and the threat of a boycott circulated. It wasn't exactly having Kevin Curren suggest that an atomic bomb be dropped on New York, but it did start the tourney with a bang...
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the bland "Wake-Up Bomb," which seems rife with the trappings of mid-80s rock and roll. "Wake-Up Bomb" packs on the weight of conventional, driving guitar chords, predictable drum patterns, and, deadliest of all, the title sung over and over again as the chorus, a la "Everybody Wang Chung Tonight." A later track, "Bittersweet Me," has the spastic energy, not to mention the intro rhythms and chords, of the Rolling Stones' "Start...
That kind of optimism is endemic among the legions of medical researchers now engaged in the most momentous technological effort since the Manhattan atom-bomb project: decoding the messages contained in human DNA. Aided largely by grants from the federally funded Human Genome Project, they are striving toward the major goal of mapping the genome and identifying all its estimated 50,000 to 100,000 genes by the year...
...keep from losing his supper, Barksdale has retained Gary Reback, a Silicon Valley lawyer who has built a reputation for bashing Microsoft. In early August, Reback mailed a legal letter bomb to the Justice Department's Antitrust Division on Netscape's behalf, accusing Microsoft of every anticompetitive behavior short of kidnapping programmers. The charges infuriated Gates, who has already battled Justice on antitrust issues. Worse, Reback's letter played right into the media's general portrayal of Netscape as a lonely underdog facing off against a cheating giant...
...Does that mean that as President you'd hesitate to bomb Saddam Hussein every now and then?" I asked...