Word: bowled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dunster Bowl...
...Given the fact that it's very hard to get people to watch television for five, six hours at a go unless it's the Super Bowl, how are you going to present the issues to the American people in enough complexity so they can make a rational decision...
When cornered, Perot can be as fierce as the rattlesnake whose fangs he keeps preserved in a glass bowl in his office. When EDS lost part of the lucrative Texas Medicaid contract to a rival firm in 1980, Perot employees promptly dug up enough dirt on the winning bidder to overturn the contract award. One of Perot's current business ventures, run by his son Ross Jr., is to develop the land around Fort Worth's new Alliance Airport, which sits on property that the Perot family shrewdly donated (thus vastly increasing the value of the adjoining acreage they kept...
...state of California might as well have executed Harris on the 50-yd. line at half time of the Super Bowl -- the two moral constituencies, pro-death penalty and con, cheering or shrieking from either side of the stadium, the federal judiciary hovering overhead like a black blimp. When Harris was finally dead, America saw the postgame show: witnesses to the execution describing how the prisoner may or may not have mouthed the words "I'm sorry" to the father of one of the victims; breathed the fumes; convulsed and drooled; then died...
...lifted by such hits as 60 Minutes (TV's No. 1-rated show), Murphy Brown and Designing Women and also got a big boost from blockbuster sports events like the Super Bowl, World Series and Winter Olympics. But the huge cost of acquiring TV rights to those events means that CBS, despite its victory, will lose money for the season...