Word: bouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begins the great Web retailing bout: nimble new-media entrepreneurs in this corner, lumbering old-media giants in the other. The Amazon IPO, nervously timed to precede Barnes & Noble's online debut, will help divine which contender Wall Street expects to land the first blow...
...existence. People still believe in it: it's just that their concept of exactly what it is has grown foggier, and they hear about it much less frequently from their pastors. To reverse the words of the old spiritual: Everybody's goin' to heaven, just ain't talkin' 'bout it. The silence is such that it sometimes seems heaven might as well not be there. Kreeft complains that even if our basic belief has not wavered, "our sense of beauty, glory, wonder, awe, magnificence, triumph has shrunk" into something "joyless." Marked by an apparent combination of lay ignorance and pastoral...
...Inactivity is a sin in boxing. Trying to come back and defy the odds is one thing. There comes a point when you realize you don't have it."--Sugar Ray Leonard after losing his comeback bout against Hector "Macho" Camacho...
...high-level commissions named by the Swiss government are examining the issues of Holocaust-era bank accounts; Swiss gold purchases and commerce with the Nazis; and the country's less than hospitable treatment of Jewish and other refugees. The poking and prodding are forcing the Swiss into an uncomfortable bout of national soul searching in which their image as a proud neutral country--founder of the Red Cross, defender of democratic values, oasis of peace and multiethnic harmony--is being challenged by a more sinister image: that of a self-centered mercantile nation that prospered from its dealings with Hitler...
...film, When We Were Kings, explores the 1974 bout in Zaire, when underdog Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman. Four years later, the champ was beaten: "Through everything, Ali was a fighter. In his youth, when he...took the title from Sonny Liston, he was a dazzling, dancing fighter. In mid-career, when he willed his body through three epic bouts with Joe Frazier, he was a courageous fighter. Toward the end, when he paced his... resources to turn away muscular challengers...he was a thinking fighter. Last week he was an old fighter. He had to match the craft...