Word: eves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July 18, the eve of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) will honor Cleary as one of the 100 greatest living American gold-medal champions...
...eve of the 1995 Sugar Bowl, Texas defensive back Ron McKelvey was revealed to be 30-year-old Ron Weaver. Driven by an undiminished desire to play college football, Weaver had changed his identity and illegally prolonged his college football career for six years. The Division I football program of the University of Texas was his Mount Olympus, an untapped fountain of youth...
Andrews, a supplies specialist who arrived in Tuzla on Christmas Eve, was sharing a drafty warehouse with about 200 men and women bedding down on green cots with shaky frames. Featuring a muddy concrete floor and diesel fumes, Building 21 is a temporary billet until tent cities are built at the base. For now, bedtime fashion consists of sweaters, wool hats, glove liners and socks. The bundling up is useful because nighttime temperatures drop below freezing, but it is not much help against drips from a leaky ceiling. Meals are still prepackaged rations of stews, mushy vegetables and dry cake...
...announcement, two days after the New Year's Eve horn tooting had died away, got 1996 off to a dismal start on the employment front. By now, of course, it is hardly news that "at most major companies, downsizing is standard operating procedure, year in and year out," in the words of John Challenger, executive vice president of the Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas...
...singer BONO spent New Year's Eve in Sarajevo. The self-proclaimed "first tourist" to the city danced one night away with Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey, then joined locals for an impromptu show the next. "I can't understand why more of our colleagues have not come," said Bono. Maybe the war had something to do with...