Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gloom, who would be tempted to join him in the upper echelons? Whether he's the most powerful man in broadcasting is not even debatable. That title automatically goes to one of the network heads. What is certain is how badly he wishes he still held his old crown: most influential. That's what he was a few years ago, when his "stupid pet tricks" and Top 10 lists were undoing the conventions of the late-night talk show. But influence can lose its cutting edge, especially when others (see Jay Leno) begin to copy...
...literary extreme, Horatio Alger's heroes triumphed through trustworthiness, diligence and stupefying practicality. As usual, the truth about the business world lies somewhere between comic cynicism and Rotarian sentimentality, in a psychological wilderness area now artfully surveyed by Steven Millhauser's Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Crown; 294 pages...
...Bears rolled to victory and went on to capture the Ivy crown, sending a strong message to a disappointed Harvard squad...
Mosley edged past Rutgers' Mike Kwapniewski, 4-3, to take the 158-pound crown, and DeNunzio and Friedman both came in third at 126 pounds and 134 pounds, respectively, winning their consolation matches...
...extra motivation for reaching that moment was the Brown game in 1994. The Crimson, which needed a win to claim the league crown, held a 3-1 in the second half only to see the Bears storm back to tie the game with under 10 minutes left and win the Ancient Eight crown outright...