Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...real marquee match-ups will come in the Western Conference though. The Blazers, Lakers, Spurs, and Kings are all bona fide threats to winning the crown, and most likely will face off against one another come the conference semifinals and finals. Yet teams like the Mavericks, Suns, Jazz, and T-Wolves will all provide entertaining first-round series that will dwarf any potential excitement generated in the Eastern Conference's first two rounds...
...several years of this, Watson got serious, and once he rose to the position of CEO, Watson transformed the company from an office machine maker into the world's most important computer manufacturer. Alan Greenspan studied music at Juilliard for two years, then dropped out to play for a jazz quartet for a year before starting business school and then getting into finance in 1948. Even then, he didn't finish his Ph.D until...
...extra income generated by the loan as savings. This can be used for medical bills or to pay school fees if the parents get sick. "Without the loans I would have had to look for another way to make money," says Florence Muriungi, 40, who sings in a Kampala jazz band and whose husband died of AIDS four years ago. Muriungi, who cares for eight children--five of her own and three her sister left when she too died of AIDS--uses the money to pay school fees in advance and fix her band's equipment. Her singing generates enough...
...fact, most children take yoga in addition to other sports. Solomon Powell, 15, says his yoga classes in Los Angeles - which include headstands, handstands and rigorous standing poses - have improved his skills in basketball. Chandler Taslitz, 7, takes ballet and jazz dance as well as yoga. "When I get wound up and crazy it helps me to be quieter and relaxed," she says. Her friend Ellery Garland adds that yoga has helped her focus on her homework...
...Gulf war. All that changed seemingly overnight. Suddenly, Major League Baseball and NBC conceived The Baseball Network and you could see national games on Wednesdays. Instead of just the NBA on NBC on Sundays, cozying up to Marv Albert (now a dangerous idea) and his take on the Spurs-Jazz, one could watch TNT and TBS and see four more games a week...