Word: jamming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team, they were ambushed in the semis by a seasoned Soviet squad, 82-76. Led by their 7-ft. 3-in. center Arvidas Sabonis and a veteran corps of deadeye 3-point shooters, the Soviets used superior height and a 25-lb.-per-man weight advantage to jam the lanes with a sagging zone defense and thwart U.S. drives on the basket. U.S. coach John Thompson had loaded up on defensive players in picking his team, and since his best outside shooter was benched with an injury, there was no credible U.S. threat from beyond the 3-point line...
Dennis Lckersley, who led the majors with 45 saves, got his second save of the series. Gene Nelson went one inning for the victory while Smith, who got out of a first-and-third jam in the eighth by retiring Canseco and Dave Parker on fly balls, took the loss...
...figure of comfort in the White House? Despite the frequent critiques of his somber style, Dukakis seldom smiled during the debate, and when he did the display of teeth seemed forced. For his part, Bush seemed almost overbriefed, as he sometimes verged on incoherence in his efforts to jam as many debating points as possible in a two-minute answer...
...starts hip-hopping urgently from foot to foot, and you know what that means. In the men's room there is no toilet paper. When Daddy asks for some, the woman at the customer-service desk eyes him as if he were just the sort of geek to jam the roll down the toilet, flush twice and drown everybody in the store. The toilet, it turns out, does not flush well anyway. Also there's no soap, and the sink has one of those faucets you have to keep pushing down, so there's not much water either. That...
After returning from summer jaunts, many travelers are looking back in anger at odysseys through jam- packed freeways, bottlenecked bridges and overstuffed airports. But gridlock is more than just an irritant: the jam- up is costing the U. S. billions of dollars in lost time and wasted fuel. It has even begun to influence where people choose to live and work. See ECONOMY & BUSINESS...