Word: buster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter what Nevada decides, Tyson's career is in deep trouble. For the first two rounds of the return bout with Holyfield, Tyson was plainly and simply outboxed. And it wasn't the first time. Before he went to prison in 1992, and especially after his 1990 loss to Buster Douglas, the decline of his skills was the talk of the boxing world. What had made Tyson invincible was sheer power. When he couldn't cancel opponents within the first four rounds, he was out of ideas. When Tyson was in his mid-20s, a consensus was growing that...
...raise your hands. Hmmm, just what I thought. The risk is that inflation will pick up, and at just 4% annual inflation the numbers start to make indexing a better deal for individuals. That, unfortunately, translates into a cost for the government and may be seen as a budget buster...
...independent" movies that blanketed the multiplexes last year, seasoned cineasts in search of pioneering film work kept flocking to the small screen of the PC. That's because the American Film Institute, through its online cinema on the Internet www.afionline.org/cinema) is showcasing the classics of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd--mavericks of the early 20th century's groundbreaking medium, silent film. With the help of VDOnet streaming video software, users have been able to watch real-time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink and Keaton's The Boat, a different one airing...
Republicans in Congress, wary of the President's proposal as a budget buster, have raised questions about administering the Hope Scholarships. Will parents append college transcripts to their tax returns? Submit drug tests? Is a B from State U. on a par with a Harvard B? And what about grades K through 12? G.O.P. majority leader Dick Armey said last week, "I want to make sure that the President's program doesn't subsidize two years of remedial learning for what should have been learned in the first 12 years." But such remarks from the party that recently wanted...
...what the world outside thinks of Fujimori is beginning to concern him more. For three weeks he has bristled at suggestions that his reputation as terrorist buster and friend of the poor was at stake inside the Japanese residence as much as the lives of the hostages. In an interview with Time last week, his first face-to-face session with the press since the crisis began, Fujimori adamantly rejected political dialogue with Tupac Amaru, insisting that the group was "in extinction." And he seemed nettled by one criticism growing louder as a result of the crisis: that...