Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Malley had planned to build a stadium. Not since the heady carpetbagging of the 1950s, when five baseball franchises (including the Dodgers) deserted multi- team cities to find gold in the West and South, have owners been so restless. Some get bored and take the pocket money, as Domino's pizza king Tom Monaghan did last week when he sold his Detroit Tigers for about $80 million to a rival pizza pasha, Mike Ilitch of Little Caesars. And some owners just feel like raising hell. Al Davis, keeper of those movable beasts the Oakland -- no, the L.A. -- Raiders, flirted shamelessly...
...council has been granted free air time ontwo radio stations, Beys said. It is alsoattempting to obtain sponsorship from Domino'sPizza, Trump Shuttle and the Harvard Co-operativeSociety, he added...
...documents. Instead he indulges in unnecessary speculation and theorizing. Every instance in which Kennedy whispers to a dovish Senator or makes a public remark about his desire to be extricated from Vietnam is taken as evidence of his secret intentions; the far more frequent examples of his invoking the domino theory and denouncing the idea of withdrawal are construed as public posturing, designed to deceive conservatives in order to get re-elected. In fact, it would be more logical to interpret Kennedy's contradictory pronouncements at their two-face value: like most charming politicians, he tended to tell people what...
...joke made the cut. Many others fell short. (Leno: "The economy is so bad that Domino's is delivering pizzas one slice at a time." Brogan: "A little corny." Leno: "Corny? Gone.") By 3:30, they had whittled the selections to 21. Leno took out a microcassette recorder and read the jokes into the machine. The tape came in at five minutes 22 seconds. Bingo. Leno nodded: "Anything between four and six minutes is fine...
...recent weeks, George F. Will and other columnists have portrayed the Nintendo bid as another Japanese threat to American society. In the current xenophobic climate, it should surprise no one that baseball is being brandished as a point of no return in some sort of domino theory of Japanese investment...