Word: jockey
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...SILVER CHARM, 3, the Preakness, by a nose over Free House. Having won the Kentucky Derby, the gray colt under jockey Gary Stevens could become the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to win the Triple Crown...
...fork just isn't the kick it might once have been--and the fact that he still pines for his high school sweetheart, whom he stood up without explanation on their long-ago prom night. Since she is played by the divine Minnie Driver--now working as a disk jockey but still smitten, it turns out, and still warily available--his feelings are understandable...
Yung has earned a reputation as one of the few Chinese businessmen to master the art of Western finance. He also knows how to cultivate an opulent life-style. One of the 12 stewards of the oh-so-exclusive Hong Kong Jockey Club, Yung loves French wine and Thoroughbred horses; he owns Mr. Vitality, the top prizewinner in Hong Kong last year...
...children watching African dancers in a gym. The staff tries to provide the children with as many diverse experiences as possible. For example, the children had gone to the Spaghetti Club the day before to watch a house staff member who moonlighted at the club as a disc jockey...
...right-hand man Alexander Korzhakov has returned to power and is threatening to uncover a dark history of Kremlin corruption. Korzhakov's election to parliament, which gives him the added benefit of immunity from prosecution, gives him a significant base to work against archrival Anatoly Chubais as they jockey in preparation for Russian after Yeltsin. Before his ouster last July, Korzhakov had worked for Yeltsin since his days as head of the Moscow Communist Party. He emerged in the Russian press as a shadowy figure with lucrative business interests and his own multimillion-dollar military compound, whose support was sought...