Word: deck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fans as we like," says Mattingly, "but the ones who come have been loud, knowledgeable and supportive." He has a point. At the game on Sept. 20, the crowd cheered louder and louder for starter Sterling Hitchcock as he dazzled the Blue Jays inning after inning. In the upper deck, where a fan could stretch out, enjoy the game and catch a foul ball without much competition, two teenage girls serenaded Yankee batters by mellifluously calling out their names: "Mattingly ... Strawberry...Velarde..." In the Hitchcockian suspense of the ninth inning, the fans were on their feet as the chubby lefthander...
From the 107th-floor observation deck of New York City's World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty below has the scale and look of a queen on one of those miniature, travel-size chessboards. Ordinarily the deck offers only spectacular vistas. But for the next month or so, visitors will be able to see something else entirely: the Intel World Chess Championship...
...residents of low-lying coastal areas are anxious this summer, they have a dozen reasons--and more are undoubtedly on the way. The hurricane season has not yet peaked, but menacing storms are already rumbling across the Atlantic Ocean one after another, like warplanes taking off from a carrier deck. Last week alone, four ominously swirling air masses zigzagged across satellite weather maps, packed so close together that it almost seemed they might merge to form a single monster storm. "You feel like you're standing in the line of fire," says Debby Sandberg, a high school math teacher...
...inspired by the familiar Taurus oval grille, took an elliptical route. Viewed from the side, the new Taurus has an elongated oval shape, as do its headlights, rear window, door handles, control panel, airbag pad and more. It has no chrome trim, no visible seams, a curving, dropped rear deck and a steep, sloping windshield. "We kept trying to make it sleek, sleek and sleeker," says Gaffka. "We wanted to suck the body molding right down over the mechanics as if it were carved out of a single piece of metal...
Such earnest talk may leave cynics wondering whether the Clintonites were still analyzing leadership more than exercising it. The early reports are not encouraging. "The whole deck was reshuffled," said one German diplomat after the meeting in Bonn, "and Lake and Tarnoff came here not showing a great deal of imagination." A French diplomat called the U.S. visit a "very positive element" and said, "We feel that the Contact Group should first develop a common approach and then present it to the parties in ex-Yugoslavia." It would appear that in neither case did the Americans take charge...