Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example of democracy at work. But in this case they are symptomatic of governmental decay at all levels. Once a great engine of social and economic improvement, the Federal Government began to lose its bearings in the '60s and '70s in the midst of wars, both cold and hot, domestic upheavals and a worldwide economic revolution. As the nation's economic base began to contract, some basic elements of the American Dream -- homeownership, a college education -- began slowly to recede. The Government responded fitfully to these developments and eventually took on the form of a bloated, inefficient, helpless giant...
...Bash Brothers -- first baseman Mark McGwire and rightfielder Jose Canseco -- each homered at least once in the playoff series against Toronto. Canseco's was a tape-measure job estimated by an IBM computer at 480 ft. Nobody seemed more impressed than Jose himself telling callers on his personal hot line, (900) 234-JOSE, "I mean, this was one mammoth home run, - and you really enjoy hitting those types. I mean, if you gotta hit it, you might as well hit it far, right...
...drove Blue Jay pitchers nuts. Like Canseco, Henderson is hardly humble. "I'd say I'm the decade's best lead-off man," he declares. "If people feel I'm one of the best who ever played the game, that's nice to hear." Opposing players call Henderson a hot dog, and frustrated fans in Toronto bombarded him with frankfurters in left field to show their displeasure...
...anyone meant more to his team in the playoffs than "Hot Dog" Henderson to the A's, it was Will ("the Thrill") Clark of the Giants. The 25-year-old first baseman had a grand-slam homer and six runs batted in in the first game, and a bases-loaded single that drove home the winning run in the finale. For the five-game series, he reached base 15 times out of 22, batted .650, scored eight runs and drove in eight, with two homers. "It's no coincidence that at the most important time of the year, Will...
Millions of years ago, hot springs laden with flecks of gold boiled up through deep fractures in the earth's crust. But the golden residue did not accumulate in rich veins. Instead, in geologists' lingo, it "disseminated" throughout the siltstone and limestone laid down by an ancient ocean. Small wonder, then, that old-time prospectors overlooked it. "This gold," marvels Livermore, "is so fine you just can't pan it. You can't even see it under an ordinary microscope...