Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this left the Democratic field fractured, with no heavyweight to take on Schwarzenegger. Sensing a disaster, such influential figures as former Governor Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown took to the cable news shows to suggest that Davis should step aside and beg Feinstein to run in his place. Meanwhile, panic-stricken union officials, who had pledged to stand with Davis, started putting out the word privately that he should not count on the $10 million in assistance he has asked from them...
...Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson declared bankruptcy last week after earning an estimated $350 million in a controversial career. Even during his glory days, when TIME featured him on its cover, there were signs of trouble ahead...
...luxury cars (including a dinged one worth $180,000 that he tried to give away) and a custody battle that pits the well-cologned manager Bill Cayton against the understated promoter Don King. Last August, once Tyson had all the belts, King threw a coronation for history's youngest heavyweight champion. The melancholy scene recalled King Kong crusted with what the promoter called "baubles, rubies and fabulous other doodads." Beholding the dull eyes and meek surprise under [Tyson's] lopsided crown and chinchilla cloak, King said he was reminded "of Homer's Odysseus returning to Ithaca to gather his dissembled...
...men’s heavyweight crew coach Harry Parker said the proposal may hinder his team’s ability to prepare. The seven week rule, was last year reduced to 33 days for crew, because there are not 49 days between the regular fall and spring seasons...
Harvard will be losing five seniors to graduation this year—David Germakian (125 lbs.), Griffin (157 lbs.), Seth Leighton (165 lbs.), heavyweight Joseph Linhart, co-captain Nick Picarsic (157 lbs.) and O’Donnell—making next year’s results dependent upon not only health but also growth from young wrestlers like freshman Mike Baria and Meltzer...