Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the country, more and more Americans are logging on to computer information and service networks and discovering an ever enlarging cornucopia at their fingertips. Today anybody with a computer, a modem and a deep line of credit can buy an airline ticket to Cleveland, rent a Hertz car at the airport, book a room at the Sheraton, buy a novel from Waldenbooks, check the closing prices on Wall Street and purchase 100 shares of IBM--without ever getting up from the computer...
...just two major league seasons has risen like an illusion of a fastball to a height somewhat loftier than 6 ft. 3 in., and a level nearly beyond imagination. When Sandy Koufax says, "I'd trade anyone's past for Gooden's future," that includes Walter Johnson's, Grover Cleveland Alexander's, Bob Feller's and his own. "Who wouldn't?" growls Don Drysdale, winding up for his famous knockdown pitch. "Gooden makes $1.32 million a year...
...instant the game began ("It was like I'd never been on a mound before"), Gooden struck out Dickie Thon to end the first inning, and 275 others before the season was through (not including the side he struck out in his first All-Star inning). Philadelphia's Grover Cleveland Alexander (227) and Cleveland's Herb Score (245) had lost their longstanding places as the breeziest rookies in the history of the National and major leagues...
Xavier Roberts, creator of the Cabbage Patch Kids and chairman of Original Appalachian Artworks of Cleveland, Ga., is not amused. Last week his company sued Topps for copyright infringement. Roberts thinks that the Cabbage Patch Kids' angelic image is being damaged by the devilish tykes from the Garbage Pail...
...Midwest sub-regional at Minneapolis, Arkansas-Little Rock stunned 10th-ranked Notre Dame, 90-83. Earlier, in the East sub-regional at Syracuse, N.Y., Cleveland State knocked off No. 16 Indiana...