Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debuted Friday night. Rodman's hair was Laker purple and yellow, and his rebounding and hustle helped his new team to an easy win over the hapless Clippers. "As a player, we can use him, plain and simple," says veteran guard Derek Harper, who won't be afraid to take Rodman by the hand if he goes goofy on them...
...that merger mania has spread to the sports world, we're bracing for the possibility of a round of long-overdue synergistic partnerships modeled on the YankeeNets venture. It's been obvious for years that the Red Sox and Cubs were destined for each other. And the hapless Golden State Warriors would make a natural match with, say, the Minnesota Timberwolves. But it won't be until the Celtics fall victim to a hostile takeover by the Lakers that we'll be sure corporate culture has made the big leagues...
...fine. She was sophisticated, good at the game. Wearing pearls and a dark pantsuit, sipping Evian over ice through a straw, Lewinsky not only didn't help her interrogator, the hapless Ed Bryant of Tennessee, but also left him with less of a case against the President than he had when the deposition began. She stood by her insistence that no one asked her to lie or offered her a job in exchange for her false affidavit, and refused to agree that the President was lying when his testimony contradicted hers, conceding only that her memory or interpretation differed from...
...found starved to death, Judge Friedman was asked by the county board of supervisors to join a panel charged with investigating services to the aged. Within a year, Friedman and others on the panel had created a model system of programs to replace the one that had failed the hapless women. But in 1992, budget cutbacks forced its cancellation. Friedman quickly countered by launching ACE, a consortium of six agencies that agreed collaboratively to close the gap in services the county would no longer provide. Trained by the agencies they work for, volunteers perform many tasks--from phoning shut...
Brown (1-5-2, 1-5-2) is eighth in the league due to fortuitous scheduling and strong goaltending. The Bears have accumulated three of their four points against the hapless Crimson. Junior goaltender Scott Stirling has kept Brown in most games. Six of his starts have been decided by one goal or less...