Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City wine merchant, charged $400 for a case of Lafite-Rothschild '82 when it first went on the market in June of 1983. The price is now $699, and it will go up to $768 on April 15. Spurrier, though, thinks that the speculative bubble will eventually burst and that 1982 prices will fall. Says he: "The public simply won't pay this. I think that a crash is inevitable...
...Mattingly burst upon the American League scene last year, winning the batting title and establishing himself as one of the finest fielding first basemen in the game Five points each...
...last great age of home run hitters was certainly the 1950s, when a whole generation of power hitters burst onto the baseball scene. For ten points identify the player who hit the most home runs in the ten years of the 1950s...
...little child in each of us would kill any person who infringed our slightest right," argues Rex Beaber, a clinical psychologist at UCLA. "A reservoir of rage exists in each person, waiting to burst out. We fantasize about killing or humiliating our boss or the guy who took our parking space. It is only by growing up in a civilized society of law that we learn the idea of proportionate response...
...Sevin, Temik and other pesticides. The sealed tank was designed to keep the deadly MIC refrigerated and isolated from the environment. But on the night of Dec. 2, a series of runaway chemical reactions heated the interior of the tank to 400 degreesF, causing an escape valve to burst open and release a lethal cloud of vapor over the slums of Bhopal...