Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yellowstone has 2.4 million visitors each year, who spend some $43 million inside park boundaries alone. Says Bill Schilling, executive director of the Wyoming Heritage Foundation, a business-backed lobbying group: "Yellowstone is Wyoming's crown jewel. Tourism was seriously impacted throughout the state." Responding to pressure from business interests in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, the Interior Department has decreed that this year every fire in Yellowstone started by natural means, as well as by human carelessness, will be strenuously suppressed...
Harvard hadn't won the game, 4-3. (Just kidding.) Krayer didn't score the game-winning goal (Ha, ha, made you look.) The Crimson didn't capture the NCAA crown. (April Fools...
...sweetest of all cups, the Eastern title, would soon find a home in Cambridge. Two weeks after their win over Penn, the Harvard heavies won the Eastern title in Worcester. The Harvard lightweights did the same. On May 21 in New Preston, Ct., the Radcliffe heavies bagged the Eastern crown...
...tech companies worth tens of millions of dollars. The rest of the money comes from overseas. "I've sold houses to the royal family of Saudi Arabia," says Nelson, who glides around town in a yellow Rolls-Royce Corniche. "Also to the emissary for the Sultan of Brunei, two crown princes in Europe and three Japanese billionaires whose names I can't pronounce." Many foreign buyers are looking for a stable investment, since California seems an unlikely candidate for revolution, and, to the Japanese especially, the land seems cheap compared with Tokyo...
...southern town of Ma'an when thousands of demonstrators attacked government office buildings and burned banks to protest increases in the price of food, gasoline and other goods. The riots quickly spread to other southern towns and then to the northern city of Salt. Hussein's brother Crown Prince Hassan, whose car was pelted with stones when he visited Ma'an, blamed Islamic fundamentalists for exploiting the unrest. At least eight people had been killed, apparently all of them civilians...