Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, so our fitness is not very good," he said. "We are tired from traveling. We are tired from traveling. We won earlier games by 30 or 40 points," he added, referring to the results of previous matchups on his team's 11-game tour of the East Coast...
...Pillars of Hercules (Putnam; 509 pages; $27.50), Theroux records a grand tour of the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to Tangier the long way around--that is to say, via the Spanish coast, Corsica, Albania and several points east, aboard wheezing buses, cranky trains and (once) a luxury cruise ship larded with rich Americans. Fans of previous Theroux travelogs like The Happy Isles of Oceania will relish some familiar ingredients. There is, for starters, his dazzling prose, which in a flick of a paragraph can shift from lowly growls of disgust to images of seascape with the allusive force of poetry...
...Panama, named them Las Encantadas--the Enchanted Isles--in 1535, and more than 4 1/2 centuries later, it's hard to argue with his view of the Galapagos archipelago. Even today, the cluster of islands, a province of Ecuador that lies some 600 miles off the South American coast, seems idyllic: the giant tortoises known as galapagos, which gave the islands their name, still amble across the scrubby landscape, sea-lion pups and Galapagos penguins gaze unafraid at scuba divers, marine iguanas crawl over volcanic rocks along the shore, and strolling tourists have to detour around blue-footed boobies...
QUAKE HITS MEXICAN COAST...
...large earthquake rocked the resort-studded Pacific coast of Mexico, killing at least 51 people, flattening one big hotel and damaging hundreds of homes. The temblor, which measured 7.5 on the Richter scale, was felt as far as 330 miles away in Mexico City, where the 63-story headquarters of the state oil monopoly swayed sickeningly...