Word: hones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, attracting fans might be a problem, but I think the athletes would hone their skills and by the time it became a medal event, it would be safe for everyone involved: participants, judges and fans...
...senior Chris Wood, Harvard rallied to tie the score at 12-12, a surge which prompted an informal cheer from the hone crowd. The teams battled back and forth to a 14-14 even score when Harvard scored two fast points to put the game away...
Movies and TV are passive experiences. The VR games are interactive. And the more active you are, the more you can enter into them. Players who hone their kill skills develop a zestful proficiency; they become self-improvement junkies while the merchants get rich. VR can also be a socializing medium, even of the zap-you're-dead! variety. TV, video games and videocassettes keep folks hermited away; VR gets them out of the house with a new gimmick -- a twist on the lures that '50s moviemakers, faced with the challenge of TV, offered film audiences with Cinerama's roller...
...Brien, of course, will get some time to hone his act. Airing an hour later than most of his late-night competitors, he is under less pressure to deliver a big audience. Ratings on opening night, NBC was happy to reveal, exceeded what Letterman got in the same time period a year ago. Letterman, meanwhile, is rolling along on his new CBS show, regularly beating Tonight's Jay Leno and Fox's new Chevy Chase Show (which since its premiere has slipped from second to third place...
While Detroit used to lose customers by raising its prices in lockstep with the Japanese, U.S. firms are now moving aggressively to hone their competitive edge. General Motors, the largest (though currently the weakest) of America's Big Three, last week unveiled a plan to hold price increases to just 1.8% in 1994. Under GM's so-called value pricing, the company will offer some fully equipped 1994 models for less than what comparable ones cost today. GM hopes that by simplifying buyers' choices it can rebuild a market share that has slipped from 61% a decade...