Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday as a second straight day of rain forced another postponement of the 81st running of the Indianapolis 500. In the early lead was Tony Stewart, last year's rookie of the year, trailed closely by pole-starter Arie Luyendyk. Skies were clear Monday morning, but after just 15 laps a fresh dose of rain brought out the red flag and sent the cars back to the pits in the order they were running. With rain still falling a few hours later, chief steward Keith Ward made the official announcement and the cars were returned to their Gasoline Alley garages...
...Waves, who partied late and said she "would have gone to pieces if I'd won. I'm quite glad I didn't." (Yeah, right.) And RALPH FIENNES, who was in such a cheery mood that he sat at the Vanity Fair party with girlfriend FRANCESCA ANNIS on his lap...
...White House that Senators--Republican Senators--had swooned over Tenet that morning, crowding around him at a secret budget briefing and predicting his confirmation hearings would be a lovefest. Even Richard Shelby, the intelligence-committee chairman whose guerrilla warfare helped bring down Lake, "was falling in [Tenet's] lap," a White House aide told TIME. Hearing that, Clinton went on TV at 4:48 p.m. and nominated Tenet...
Running with stress fracture in his leg, freshman Darren N. Dineen fell behind early in the 1000 but ran a remarkable last lap to pass most of the field. He finished the race in second, setting a freshman record in the process...
...after her swearing in, she ate lunch in the State Department cafeteria, then gave a press conference that yielded a conspicuously high turnout. She announced that within a month she would go around the world; it would be both a global victory lap and a stamping of her authority on the struggles upcoming, such as NATO expansion and the transfer of Hong Kong to China. Later that evening she was host at a reception for family, friends, political colleagues, diplomatic officials, office seekers and the media elite. They showed up in two shifts because the guest list was so long...