Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have come back, and the windows of the houses beam. I am accustomed to walking the length of the street after dinner in near total darkness, so it makes for a happy surprise, this sudden brightening. In the dead black cold of night, the windows seem to shiver with gold and amber--strong and beautiful assertions of the light...
TARA LIPINSKI was so at ease last week in Nagano, Japan, that a number of insiders were marking her as the favorite for the Ladies Figure Skating gold medal, even though MICHELLE KWAN has bragging rights as U.S. National champion. The two rivals, together with another former American champ, NICOLE BOBEK, are part of the team that has the Olympics murmuring, "U.S. medals sweep." That kind of talk isn't, of course, going down well with other competitors. Russia's MARIA BUTYRSKAYA settled on her target a month ago, sniffing, "Lipinski made mistakes in many competitions this season...
...bells and gleaming gold clock hands at St. Paul's church are a welcome addition to the Mt. Auburn community of Adams, Lowell and Quincy, houses normally grouped with the River houses. Now, for better or worse, instead of the awkward "Tommy's Houses" moniker which these three houses have earned, they can be called the Bell Houses...
...yourself, a way of measuring how far you have come. As one of Atlas's friends tells him, he needs money to feel smart. Money is treated as a psychological necessity, like security, or peace of mind. The New York Observer treats the book contract bonanza lore like a gold rush than a session with a therapist. There is so much money out there, you simply have to take advantage of the market. The Observer piece reads like a challenge to our yankee ingenuity. In the old days we would have had to invent some new spindle for the textile...
NAGANO, Japan: Does marijuana enhance the performance of a snowboarder? A slim majority in the International Olympic Committee believes it does, and voted yesterday to strip Canadian Ross Rebagliati of his gold medal after he tested slightly above the International Ski Federation?s threshold. But the Court of Arbitration of Sport overturned that decision today, ruling that Rebagliati would keep his medal...