Word: pepping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When his brother wasn't out on the floor, Dana still had some strange moments. Trying to make a save, he went crashing into the CCSU Pep Band, which was inexplicably seated behind the baseline. Later, the normally sure-handed point guard had a breakaway but somehow lost control of the ball off his dribble...
...judges, House members will receive a 7.9% salary increase in 1990 and a 25% hike in 1991. Tacked onto the raise was a ban on outside speaking fees or honorariums, which enable House members to boost their salaries by as much as $26,850 a year by giving pep talks to lobbyists and industry groups...
There is just one catch to make things a little more fair--the champion will have to play all eight opponents at the same time. Considering the quality of the Harvard contingent that will be playing today, maybe it's Kasparov who could use a good pep talk...
That would be ambitious and expensive -- up to $150 billion. But the payback would be great. Such a specific, long-term goal would invigorate NASA. It would revive public interest in science, providing new pep for a sector of the educational system that has become disturbingly weak. It would stimulate innovation in everything from materials science to computers to communications. It would create jobs. And, least tangible but perhaps most important, it would add enormously to the nation's prestige...
Pomp and circumstance was the order of the day at Addis Ababa's Bole International Airport as Ethiopia's Marxist President, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, gave a group of progovernment dignitaries a pep talk and then flew off for a four-day state visit to East Germany. But within a few hours of his departure early last week, a group of senior army officers were in revolt against Mengistu's rigidly Marxist twelve-year-old regime...