Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...football, it's the Nebraska Cornhuskers. In hockey, it's the Boston University Terriers. In basketball, it's the Kentucky Wildcats. But in men's squash, it's the Harvard Crimson...
...Draheim and her husband Jim looked longingly at a $300 NordicTrack exerciser but said they probably would not buy the machine unless it goes on sale. "It's something that would be good for us long term," says Draheim, a research director for the Chamber of Commerce in Omaha, Nebraska. "But what we spend on it is money that doesn't buy groceries." Also watching every buck is Anne Branigan, a Chamber of Commerce colleague whose husband recently lost his job in a corporate downsizing. The couple plans to spend no more than $400 this Christmas, down from...
...touch with his proletarian passions, he's rediscovered them with "The Ghost of Tom Joad," a new collection of songs about desperate lives along the Mexican border. "This album has the power to haunt," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Springsteen's sound, which is somewhere between his stark 'Nebraska' album and his serenely wrenching hit 'Streets of Philadelphia, is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, a harmonica and a keyboard...
...daily, typically over such visceral issues as land and water. The angry rebels range from ranchers fed up with bureaucrats' telling them when and where to graze their cattle to developers denied crucial water rights. "We're talking about things that go right down to the heart," says Nebraska Governor Ben Nelson, a Democrat and chairman of the Western Governors' Association. Although a moderate, he confesses that he too gets fed up with federally mandated burdens like those imposed by the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, which requires even struggling communities to spend heavily to upgrade their water systems...
...Blair, Nebraska, there was a case where the city officials captured a 15-year-old girl and imprisoned her in a foster home to force her to carry the baby to term," Strossen said...