Word: caged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maher is not your typical dominant basketball player. At 5'8", she's not especially tall. Nor is she lightning quick. But when it comes to shooting a basketball she is simply the best, better than all those who have called Briggs Cage their home...
About two months ago, laughter rang through Briggs Cage as the Harvard women's lacrosse team celebrated its first practice of the season with orange juice and powdered doughnuts...
...Vegas, the Mirage, is the biggest moneymaker on the Strip, at least in part because patrons come to see the man-made volcano out front that erupts at night every 15 minutes, the sharks swimming behind the registration desk, the white tigers lounging below Roman columns in their glass cage and the dolphins in the seaquarium. His new Treasure Island casino, to open in October, will re-create at hourly intervals a cannon fight between two battleships and offer a permanent home to the elegant Cirque du Soleil. If Wynn gets his way, he will be permitted to build...
LIKE A BIG-GAME HUNTER DISPLAYING HIS PRIZE catch, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori paraded Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso before the people. Guzman, wearing prison pinstripes and surrounded by hooded guards, was placed in a cage aboard a gunboat and transferred from his island prison to a maximum-security windowless cell at a navy base on the mainland. Fujimori staged the media event to draw attention to the successes of his war on terrorism and to justify his "government of emergency" declared a year ago. The boasting did not go unanswered. In a violent response, Shining Path guerrillas...
...alive with the bristling confidence of a pennant contender. After all, the black-capped Pirates have won more games than any other team in the 1990s and, in Sisyphean fashion, came within one agonizing out of making it to last year's World Series. Instead, leaning against the batting cage, Pirate manager Jim Leyland talked bravely about "looking forward to the new challenge of putting this team together." The sad truth is that the proud Pirates have been decimated by the exodus of free agents...