Word: match
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, the time difference between the United States and South Korea has pushed many major events into the wee hours of our morning. The American audience can hear results before they've had a chance to watch the match on TV, and this makes the broadcast less compelling...
...basketball game, whose announcers were doing the play-by-play. If NBC wanted to give us a sense that there is a lot going on at the same time, they succeeded. But who wants to hear about a missed free throw in the first few minutes of a basketball match when one could be concentrating on the world's finest diver's best effort...
Freshman Steven Kan, playing in his first collegiate water polo match, also added two goals for the Crimson...
...Well, one day Frank went out and drank himself some beers, bought himself a can of gasoline, a perfectly normal adult activity, and went home to the wife, the dog and his furniture sales. There was the gas and the furniture, gas and furniture...I don't know...a match was involved. It's physics, I dunno, you tell me...So Frank went out to make his way in the world of entertainment..." And so we meet Frank heading out for his wild years, with his slick mustache, black and red smoking jacket, three-inch cigarrette holder, greased back hair...
...broke his neck. In the hospital he learned to drive an electric wheelchair and to type using a mouth stick. But he was 27 and a graduate student at the University of Colorado before he got his IBM PC. "It had become painfully obvious that I could no longer match my peers simply by being bright," he recalls. "The computer opened all sorts of doors for me." Now Young is earning a Ph.D. in biology, working as a laboratory consultant and writing more than he ever did when he had the use of his arms and legs. "The best part...