Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-game series from the still world-champion Toronto Blue Jays last week: 69,303 in aggregate attendance, or an average of 17,326 a game. Granted, owner George Steinbrenner does everything he can to knock the Bronx and nothing to promote the Bombers, but the weather was glorious, the situation enticing and the scalpers so generous that they were selling tickets for less than face value. Baseball is clearly in trouble when the most famous team in the world in one of the biggest cities in the world draws 17,000 for a big game...
When all there was to root for was Mark Langston, and that glorious year when he won 17 games for a sub .500 team...
...commentators call the "golden goose" theory: Hong Kong's thriving economy, capitalist infrastructure, and status as a hub of world business make it such a tantalizing prize that the Chinese won't dare to mess with it. (Deng Xiaoping himself has been known to say, "To get rich is glorious.") The theory has been so convincing that big business has come to see 1997 not as a disaster but as an unrivaled opportunity to crack the billion-strong Chinese market. Integrating Hong Kong into the mainland would bring down the barriers that slow trade traffic into China...
...silence for prayer in public school by July 1995. We can be thankful that he has missed this deadline and hope that such a move will not come soon. While Gingrich claims that prayer in school would not only preserve America from ruin, but return the country to some glorious past, he misunderstands what America has always been about...
...League was not always the backwater of the college football world. In the early part of the century it was the center of it, with Harvard even having a Rose Bowl victory and national championships to its name. While few students today are cognizant of this glorious past--or consider it of any consequence--it is very much on the mind of many alumni, some of whom are among the University's largest donors, who come to Soldiers Field...