Word: cups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World Cup will be shown in Loker Commons on three TV screens every evening, especially to please international students who Queen said are fond of soccer...
Boom defines NASCAR. More than 5.8 million fans attended the 32 Winston Cup races last year, up 66% since 1990; an additional 160 million watched on five broadcast and cable-television networks. NASCAR's TV ratings regularly beat professional basketball, baseball and hockey and are second only to the NFL in major league sports. "The real value that is going up," says Brian France, grandson of NASCAR's founder Bill France and the organization's senior vice president of marketing, "is the amount of media that companies are willing to dedicate to NASCAR. Five years ago, they didn't think...
...accident that Pixar, the computer-animation company, sold its first shares to the public in 1995 while its movie Toy Story was a runaway box-office hit. Or that hockey's Florida Panthers made the move a year later, fresh from their first appearance in the Stanley Cup finals. Nor is it a fluke that Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs, with the market at a historic high, is now mulling an initial public offering of its own. In the business of making your money mine, which is what any IPO is about, timing is everything...
...fire with petrol bombs. A young Englishman with his throat slashed. An old Frenchman being kicked until blood spurts from his head. No, it's not a scene from World War II, but the second ugly incident of France '98. Ahead of Monday's England-Tunisia World Cup match, hundreds of English fans went to war with hundreds of Tunisians -- and fought a second front against thousands of local French Algerians and the police. More than 34 people were injured, according to rescue services, and early reports spoke of more than 100 arrests...
...Thankfully, no-one was. But the drunken English hooligan -- the kind of soccer parasite last seen on the streets of Turin in 1990 -- has reared his ugly head again. A pall has been cast over today's game, not to mention England's bid to host the World Cup...