Word: marin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Captain Vince Marin collected 81 assists in the hole, but after the game blasted his team's performance...
...Williams' comic persona is supercharged and allusive, and because he was a sex-and-drugs wild man, people assume that he has always been a hellion. In fact, he was a quiet, dutiful, good son -- a not very religious Episcopal acolyte, a student-body president, and in 1969, in Marin County, Calif., a quiet, dutiful, unrebellious teenager. The blowout hedonism of his 20s and 30s was the aberration, because now, at 40, he is quiet, dutiful and good once again...
When the Buck Center for Research in Aging proposed to conduct research on rats and other rodents at the $30 million facility it plans to build in suburban Marin County, some residents sounded the alarm. Animal-rights activists warned that studying the beasts would lead to unnecessary cruelty and that the laboratory could be a source of dangerous medical wastes. But another ominous potential threat, opponents argued, was that living near the center might make people feel bad about themselves...
...cooking-oil companies that benefited from foreign donations of cooking oil last year. The government sold the oil to the firms at below market price; they turned around and sold it to consumers for nearly twice what they had paid. While admitting the companies turned a handsome profit, Alfredo Marin, Gracsa's general manager, maintains, "The government has done nothing, nothing, nothing, for this company...
...Lacayo bought a stake in San Felipe, a failing state-run chicken farm. Since then it has made a remarkable comeback. Marin, who also sits on its board of directors, predicts that San Felipe will be the country's No. 1 chicken producer in three years...