Word: bowl
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...like winning the Super Bowl. It was like winning the World Series. It was like winning the Boston Marathon...
...relatively prosperous coastal regions, millions of successful entrepreneurs are building a future in exports to the outside world. Meanwhile, most of the interior provinces lag well behind, thanks to stagnant state planning, price-controlled agriculture and millions of cadres clinging to Mao's rusty concept of the "iron rice bowl," lifelong employment guaranteed by the state. In parts of the interior, especially the large cities and Sichuan, Deng's home province and the laboratory for economic reform, some have prospered. But not many. The eleven western provinces and territories, including the huge Tibetan and Xinjiang autonomous regions, with 300 million...
Dogs bark in the Himalayan night. Lights flicker across the hillside. On a pitch-black path framed by pines and covered by a bowl of stars, a few ragged pilgrims shuffle along, muttering ritual chants. Just before dawn, as the snowcaps behind take on a deep pink glow, the crowd that has formed outside the three-story Namgyal Temple in northern India falls silent. A strong, slightly stooping figure strides in, bright eyes alertly scanning the crowd, smooth face breaking into a broad and irrepressible smile. Followed by a group of other shaven-headed monks, all of them in claret...
Meanwhile, professional football remains in the dark ages. This year marked the first time a Black quarterback, Doug Williams of the Washington Redskins, competed in the Super Bowl. It also marked another year in which no Black held a positon as head coach or general manager...
Oklahoma entered last night's game as a nine-point favorite. The Sooners left wondering why they always get stuck in this fairy tale. In January, the Oklahoma football team--ranked number one in the nation--fell to Miami in the Orange Bowl and lost the national championship...