Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...club at the end of the 1986 season; the leadership of Mike Hargrove, the manager who steadied the team after a tragic boating accident in the spring of '93 killed two pitchers and injured another; the savvy of general manager John Hart, who traded for Kenny Lofton, Jose Mesa, Carlos Baerga and Omar Vizquel, among others; and, of course, the new ball park, which is slightly derivative of Baltimore's Camden Yards but not at all derivative of depressing Cleveland Stadium. "What do I miss about the old ball park?" asks Hargrove. "Nothing...
...says. "I was afraid of my own temperament." As his black puppy, Harley, chews on a Gideon Bible, Moreland, now 40, lies back on the bed. "I'm starting to have tears in my eyes, just thinking back," he says. In recent months he has lived in Mesa, Tucson and Las Vegas, working as a day laborer...
...seven freshmen are listed on the team's roster this season. They are: Rachel Gold from La Mesa, Calif.; Elissa Hart from Sacramento, Calif.; Sarah Logan from Cardiff, Calif.; Lolita Lopez from Houston, Tex.; Molly Meenan from Newton, Mass.; and Stephanie Salm from Thousand Oaks, Calif...
...waking hours in Holocaust denial, wants open debate, he says, because the possibility that the Holocaust was a hoax goes unreported. Much of the material on which Smith bases his claims comes from the pseudointellectual journal of the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust-denial group in Costa Mesa, California, and the writings of Mark Weber, a former member of the neo-Nazi National Youth Alliance. Says Smith: "I think that journalists feel their career is threatened if they treat revisionist research in an objective...
...projects with an eye to bringing the most promising to market. To convert miners into machinists, the state finances retraining programs both on campuses and at companies. State officials argue that it is no accident that McDonnell Douglas has laid off thousands of its workers in Long Beach, California; Mesa, Arizona; and St. Louis, Missouri; but not in Salt Lake City, Utah...