Word: mountained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them to win. The implications remain troubling: what would a bookie taking Rose's action infer if the manager of the Reds, who bet on them regularly, didn't bet on them that particular day? "There had not been such grave allegations since the time of [Kenesaw Mountain] Landis," said then commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti in 1989, referring to the commissioner who cleaned up the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Confronted with this evidence, Rose agreed to a lifetime ban from the sport but didn't specifically admit to betting on baseball. Implicit in the agreement, according to former commissioner...
...addition, the rudeness on both sides of the argument really bothered me. The least she could have done, in initiating the whole rhubarb to begin with, was come up with some polite yet clever way of scolding me: "Lovely mountain bike. Perhaps it would function best in the wilderness." And I would not have retorted so contemptuously. "Such is the urban jungle," I would reply, eyes twinkling, and we'd both go our merry ways...
...Worcester. As a firefighter myself, it is very hard to witness such a tragedy unfold as we did last Friday night. It is an unspeakable tragedy to lose one firefighter, let alone six as we did Friday, or 14 as we did five years ago on Storm King Mountain in Colorado...
...Russians seem intent on winning--for now--at any cost. In Moscow, top army commanders announced at week's end that Russian troops had entered the third and final phase of the offensive, the destruction of guerrillas in their mountain bases. On Thursday Grozny was hammered with the heaviest rocket and artillery fire of the current war. Thousands of rockets and shells rained down on the city, according to the Russian media. The few journalists in the city say hospitals are overflowing. The breakaway government claims more than 4,000 have died, though this cannot be independently confirmed. But Chechen...
...invested in the S&P 500, it would have grown to just $49,923, according to the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago's graduate school of business. Incredibly, there were more than a few outright losers, including Acuson (-46%), Battle Mountain Gold (-83%), Russell Corp. (-51%) and Toys "R" Us (-29%). Many others were gross laggards (Fluor, International Paper, Kellogg, Reynolds Metals, GM). The analysts messed up by taking Pepsi (+260%) over Coke (+599%), Unilever (+165%) over Gillette (+558%). And a couple of stocks (Waste Management and Compaq) blew up just this year...