Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans are a competitive bunch. It was probably inevitable that the striving impulse would sooner or later reshape kids' sports. But the trend has been abetted by other, less predictable changes in American life: the ascendancy of the automobile, the shrinking of open spaces, the ubiquity of the two-earner family and the pervasive fear of crime. Baby-boomer parents may look back wistfully at their own childhood, when playing sports was a matter of heading to the corner sandlot or the neighborhood park after school for a pick-up game. But the sandlot's been filled...
...also noticed several sawed-open skeletons, broken scientific glassware and test tubes strewn among the remains...
...also noticed several sawed-open skeletons, broken scientific glassware and test tubes strewn among the remains...
...were surprised to find a warm family man, not the weird hermit of the press clippings. Cruise and Kubrick, both pilots (though Kubrick refused to fly later in life), ended up debating the effect of aviation on World War II. "Stanley was not what you expected. He was very open," says Cruise...
...quote from America Online CEO Steve Case about the FCC's decision on open access to the Internet [BUSINESS, June 7] was stated incorrectly. It should have read, "It's a choice between right and wrong," not a "battle between good and evil...