Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than a computer problem, because ((the P.R.I.)) had a computer system, and it worked very well. There were more than 54,000 casillas (voting booths), some of them in rural areas. Also, because of the tremendous flood of voters, some casillas did not close at 6 p.m. but stayed open ((legally)) in order to allow those in line to vote...
...Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert doubled in love 14 years ago, two fresh champions emerged, one for the ages. The torch that Steffi Graf has been tugging at for more than a year, but that Martina Navratilova managed to hold fast last summer at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, was finally handed over gracefully, emphatically and a little sadly...
...really had felt that she could win it. This is her special tournament." But Steffi never gave much thought to losing. "It would not be the way to go to the Grand Slam," she said. Australia, France and England are in hand, and only next month's American Open remains, in the first sweeping quest on either the men's or women's side since Margaret Court's in 1970. A "special player," a "super player," Martina called Graf, and some say she may soon be as strapped for an opponent as Mike Tyson. "Except I'm not talking about...
...lifts security restrictions just long enough for a twin-engine prop plane from Beijing to deposit its passengers. They are whisked past the barracks of a People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) unit. It is shortly before sundown, and troops are playing soccer, basketball, Ping-Pong and open-air billiards on the edge of the runway, not far from a wing of 70 Chinese-built MiG-21 interceptors, each sheathed in canvas to guard against corrosion in the heavily polluted...
...have made it clear that we will keep the gulf open, no matter what the threat," he said. "We will not alter out course...