Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waited 30 years for this moment, and these guys arrive last year and suddenly win it." Some fans took the celebrating too far: Denver police had to use mace and batons to disperse about 3,000 unruly fans who were setting fire to newspapers, breaking windows and turning over park benches. Police arrested 15 revelers and three people were hospitalized with minor injuries. -->
...boxing tournament at the 1988 Seoul Games was marred by several controversial decisions, most notably one that gave a gold medal to Korean Park Si-hun over American Roy Jones Jr. According to a report in USA Today, British author Andrew Jennings says he has obtained a document from the files of the former East German police that apparently describes payoffs to judges to fix fights in favor of South Koreans. The charge is contained in his book The New Lords of the Rings...
...father's tobacco shop look more expensive. As a teenage bellhop, he boosts sales at a hotel concession. In 1894 at the age of 22, he opens the Metropolitan Lunchroom and Billiard Parlor, a winning concept that is expanded northward into the newly developing acreage bordering Central Park...
...discontents, the repression of instincts in the service of progress. Yet this commercial hero also represents a period of social history when ambition and new wealth outstripped utility and taste. Dressler's Grand Cosmo, an architectural and cultural Tower of Babel, is part residence and part theme park. Within its 30 stories and two subterranean levels are a beach, a lake, a model New England village, a Moorish bazaar and a simulated asylum for the insane. Criticized as an example of "the worst excesses of late Victorian eclecticism," Dressler's folly fails spectacularly, a case of too much too late...
...John F. Kennedy School of Government will award 479 degrees: 226 one-year master of public administration (M.P.A.), 29 two-year M.P.A., 220 master of public policy (M.P.P.) and four master in public policy and urban planning degrees at Kennedy Memorial Park, according to the registrar...