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...easy three-footers Kevin Willis doth choke...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Poetry In Motion | 5/5/1994 | See Source »

...Saturday night, the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat spent seven minutes beating each other's brains out after Heat player Grant Long put a hard foul on Hawk Duane Ferrell. After an exchange of words, Long started to choke Ferrell and both benches cleared...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Rough Days In Sports | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...Biggest Choke: Japanese ski jumper Masahiko Harada, who took a lead of 55.1 points into the team final; he followed with the worst jump by any member of the top eight teams, handing the gold to the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lillehammer Babylon an Opinionated Winter Olympics Roundup | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...Holding off would allow inflation to blossom eventually and force much bigger interest-rate increases that really would stop growth. But others contend that low rates are the biggest reason why a disappointingly slow recovery has finally quickened into a promising advance. Raising borrowing costs now, they fear, will choke off the budding boom, in part by making purchases of such things as houses and cars harder to finance. Republican Congressman Toby Roth of Wisconsin complained to Greenspan last week, "Many of us feel that you're taking away the punch bowl as the guests are still taking their coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inflation Terminator | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...Australian Open, the tournament that was supposed to mark her return to women's tennis. Maybe she's waiting for Nancy and Tonya to get out of her spotlight...Great to see Scott Hoch win another golf tournament last weekend in the Bob Hope Chryseler Classic. Hoch "as in choke, who blew a two-foot putt that would have won him the 1989 Masters, won for the first time since that fateful season, and in light of his top-six finish last year in the U.S. Open, it seems his return to form might be legit...And a show...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: On Herr Jordan, And others | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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