Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that a Japanese team could someday meet the American champs in a real World Series. That goal finally seems plausible, now that Japan's Hideo Nomo has become an All-Star in the U.S., and New York Yankee farmhand Hideki Irabu is mowing down American batters with 99 m.p.h. fast balls...
...tell school officials and, in effect, the town, to wake up and enter the second half of the 20th century. All of which assured only one thing: she can forget next year's Miss Popularity title. Teachers have shunned her. Friends have dumped her. "I was surprised by how fast it happened," she says. A recall petition was started at school. And on a local radio show, the Williamses were called Yankees and carpetbaggers. Shaken but still on her feet, Alison went to a meeting where school-board members shifted and shrugged when she asked to speak, and one finally...
...used to? To keep clocks in synch the National Institute of Standards and Technology will add an extra, or leap, second on June 30. Atomic clocks use a length of a second that doesn't represent the long-term slowing trend, so they're a teeny-weeny bit fast. Says NIST spokesman Collier Smith: "We stop the hands of the clock long enough for the world to catch...
...take some chances," Drudge admits. But he boasts that his items are "80% accurate"--counting his (correct) prediction of Bob Dole's running mate and his (apparently inaccurate) report that Paula Jones saw a bald-eagle tattoo in Bill Clinton's crotch area. His brand of fast-and-loose journalism seems to work online, where getting it first often means more than getting it right. And why not? It's a fast-food medium, and increasingly savvy users are learning (thank you, Pierre Salinger) to take a fistful of salt with every byte...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Brother, can you spare $250,000? That?s the plea President Clinton will make to 40 or 50 of his wealthiest supporters over dinner Wednesday night in a desperate attempt to balance the Democrat's sagging books as the midterm election season fast approaches. Clinton will ask each of his pals to raise or donate $250,000 over the next two years to help retire the party's $14.5 million debt. The DNC has met all its money targets so far this year, and expects to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But while the flush...