Word: kent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michigan 24, Kent...
Marquis Grissom led the game off at 4:04 p.m., lining Kent Mercker's first pitch into the right-centerfield alley for a double. The Expos had taken the first two in this three-game series, and such a beginning boded fatally for whatever pennant prospects remained for the Braves...
...draft version of proposed legislation makes bulletin boards responsible for copyright infringements on their piece of the Net. Needless to say, companies like American Online and CompuServe aren't exactly pleased with the idea. It's like making "the highway responsible for the reckless drivers that use it," protests Kent Stuckey, general counsel of CompuServe. On the other side: copyright holders like music publishers and publications. Bulletin boards "are profiting" from the work of artists, says Susan Mann, attorney for the National Music Publishers' Association. Public hearings on the issue are being held this month...
...saved a small town from the Environmental Protection Agency when it moved against a local polluter. Federal bureaucracy, Kerrey warns, "is the most formidable enemy of all sometimes." (Is this the same Bob Kerrey who not long ago proposed a federal takeover of health insurance?) And here's Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, bragging that he was "leader in the fight that stopped the BTU tax." That's shorthand for the energy tax. Readers will recall that the leader in the effort to advance it was Bill Clinton...
...Glyndebourne is changing. Last week, amid fireworks and the blessing of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the company opened a new theater that seats 1,200 -- the original seated 830 -- and that includes about 60 places to be sold at $15. The design is spare, even modest, making no attempt to impose itself on the landscape, and the acoustics are much better than those of the old house. At the opening, the company tried to keep gloating to a minimum. That must have been hard. The management had, after all, opened the only new opera house in England since...