Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian colleagues and making them the first people to leave earth on one country's rocket and return home on the craft of another. The docking and six similar missions planned for the next two years are just warm-ups for the space industry's version of the Super Bowl. Between 1997 and 2002, the Russians and the Americans, with help from the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan, intend to build an international space station, the $40 billion Alpha. The elaborate station is to be assembled in orbit, and the purpose of the joint shuttle-Mir missions...
...Vegas betting on a football game call the over and under-meaning a bet on whether the final score of a football game will be above or below a certain number of points. Leeson was betting the over on the Nikkei 225. If he had been betting the Super Bowl and he went the wrong way on the over-under, he would have lost the amount of his original wager and no more. In the futures market traders only have to put a small percentage on the table--in Singapore, until last week, it was 6%--so losses can exceed...
...Everyone,'' he says. ``For our big promo, we're going to give Simoleons away to some average Joes at the Super Bowl. We'll check in with them one, three, six months later, and people will see that this is a safe and stable place to put their money...
...been put in the hands of 27 stooges hired by the the government. The stooges have already FedEx'd their entry forms with the correct numbers. So, as of now, all of your Simoleons -- $27 million worth -- are going straight into the hands of the stooges on Super Bowl Sunday. And they will turn out to be your worst public-relations nightmare. They will cash in their Simoleons for comic books and baseball cards and claim it's safer. They will intentionally go bankrupt and blame it on you. They will show up in twos and threes on tawdry talk...
Which brings us to Super Bowl Sunday. We are sitting in a skybox high up in the Superdome, complete with wet bar, kitchen, waiters and big TV screens to watch the instant replays of what we've just seen with our own naked, pitiful, nondigital eyes...