Word: numeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...driving in the passing lane. Since Jan. 1, the billionaire entrepreneur has gone from neophyte car man to the nation's biggest car retailer. His Republic Industries has bought up new- and used-car dealerships whose revenues totaled $2.7 billion last year. That will make Republic bigger than current numero uno Hendrick Automotive Group of Charlotte, North Carolina, with $2.3 billion, Automotive News reports. TIME first detailed Huizenga's plans for a dealership-acquisition binge in December. Then, Huizenga, 59, had little more than a blueprint and a shopping list...
...that the butler did it. Bardolatry took root shortly after the dramatist's death in 1616, flowered in the 18th century and has flourished largely unchecked ever since. If all Bloom has to say, as the 20th century winds down, is that Shakespeare is the best, the champ, numero uno, then the necessity of his doing so, at such length, seems dubious...
...best player in the league. Not even the best player of the decade. But the best there ever was. Numero Uno. The Man. The John Lennon of the hard courts. The Babe Ruth of hoops. In my short time as a sports junkie, I can't think of another league that can equal this feat...
...GRAND GOTHIC HEADQUARTERS OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE has been designated a smoke-free zone, from the basement to the executive suites on the 24th floor . . .with one exception: the ramshackle cubbyhole on the fourth floor, where numero uno columnist MIKE ROYKO bats out his prose...
...pattern goes back at least 30 years. For John Kennedy, bandito Numero Uno was Fidel Castro. The Bearded One occasioned both the greatest debacle of J.F.K.'s term, the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and the most dangerous incident of the cold war, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Lyndon Johnson's presidency became a battle of wills between Johnson and Ho Chi Minh. Johnson lost. Jimmy Carter found himself squared off against the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Desert One, site of the failed attempt to rescue the U.S. hostages in 1980, was Carter's Bay of Pigs -- and, as it turned...