Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the frenzy of millennial predictions, spawned by the strike, of the death of baseball. None of these predictions have come true, of course, but nevertheless the attitude lingers that baseball is in deep trouble and needs the Herculean feats of McGwires and Ripkens to keep from teetering into oblivion. This is a myth. Suggesting that baseball needs saviors is to suggest it is in a worse state than it actually is, and only further perpetuates the myth...
Other correspondents tapped their sources to gauge the response. Ann Blackman found that many Cabinet members "are deeply disgusted and disappointed that the issues they came to Washington to promote are fading into oblivion." John Dickerson returned from vacation to spend 14-hour days on Capitol Hill monitoring lawmakers' attitudes toward censure or impeachment. Michael Weisskopf pursued fresh leads arising out of Starr's investigation and spent time with people close to Clinton, "trying to get a sense of his mood...
WASHINGTON: Another of the high-flying seven has fallen. Alan Shepard, who in 1961 became the first American in space and, a decade after that, perhaps rescued the space program from oblivion, died Tuesday night at age 74. "There are few people with a more exalted place in the pantheon," says TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger. "He was the first. But even more remarkable was his second trip." After 10 years on the ground with ear trouble, Shepard was 47 in 1971 when, with very little training, he took the Apollo 14 lunar module back up -- and spent 33 hours...
...Deconstructing Harry," among other things. For Albert, once the lead basketball announcer for NBC, local New York City radio must be a comedown. (He'll also be manning the sports desk for Madison Square Garden's cable network.) On the other hand, it's a big step up from oblivion. Remember Jimmy the Greek and Al Campanis, two guys who got a one-way ticket to showbiz oblivion after making impolitic remarks about race. On the basis of this admittedly small survey, transgressions of the flesh seem more easily forgiven by the American public than bigotry...
...year transition period of co-chairmanship, a single chairman will take charge of the company. That chairman, you can wager, will come from Daimler-Benz. In short, Chrysler has been "bought" by Daimler-Benz. As a result, another great name in America's manufacturing history will gradually fade into oblivion. With only two American auto manufacturers left, we are at risk of losing the automobile industry, much as we have lost the consumer-electronics industry. While we celebrate our evolution into a "service economy," our trading partners are happy to take advantage of our naivete. WILLIAM J. LYNOTT, President...