Word: fleet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fleet Center...
...Fleet Center, the massive new home to most of Boston's major league sports teams, hardly seems like the appropriate forum in which to showcase Tori Amos and her piano-playing skills. Her intense performances and haunting, almost ethereal songs would surely get lost in the monstrosity of a sports arena that resembles the interior cargo area of a spaceship more closely than it does a concert hall. Besides, if the area itself didn't drown Amos and her talents, surely the throngs of screaming goth-clad alternateens would...
...Park Fair, TLG lures mall rats to its laboratory, often rewarding them with cash or food. Once there, they might sit in the focus rooms and chew gum for hours to test new flavors, or they might examine a fleet of new banana-seat bicycles and comment on the colors and styles. All the while, clients can view the testing through two-way mirrors. For one test, 35 children came in to sample 34 different juices. Hey, it pays to go to the experts...
Whaling formed the backbone of the New Bedford (Bonanza bus lines, $20 round trip) economy in the 19th century, and today the fishing fleet continues to anchor in the harbor...
...been "rebuilding" for nearly a decade. Oh, yeah, Celtics stock has been anything but a slam-dunk, soaring from $18 1/2 to just over $20--in 12 years. Even if you count dividends, the return on Celtics stock has been as exciting as a brick clanking off the Fleet Center rim. Expect no more from the Indians' stock. (By week's end, investors had already pushed the stock below its IPO price--an ominous sign...