Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mode's monolithic melodies, abetted by clever consumer-culture sound effects (dropping ping-pong balls, snipping scissors) and super-resonant production, captures the finely-ground precision of the motionmusik, and added to the heartbreak of frustated adolescent romance, how could it miss...
...image of inhospitable communities knocking an unwanted company around like a ping pong ball leads some to propose a central authority for arbitration. No regulations of supertoxins now exist in the U.S. except through DOD contracts. Toxic chemical legislation such as the Massachussetts Hazardous Waste Managagement Act, and the policies of such agencies as the Deportment of Public Health, apply exclusively to industrial waste and spills--certainly not to chemical warfare agents...
...presence at the Games, China boycotted the Olympics from 1956 to 1976. In 1979, Peking agreed to compete at future Games side by side with Taiwan, but then joined the U.S.-led 1980 Moscow boycott. Like U.S. Volleyball Ace Flo Hyman and her teammates, Chinese Spiker Lang Ping, better known as the "Iron Hammer," had patiently waited for another shot at Olympic glory...
Lotto is the game that captures the most attention-and headlines-in those states that have it. Typically, the player picks six numbers from 1 to 44 and waits to see if they pop up in the Ping Pong-ball contraptions used to select winning combinations. If no one wins, the jackpot accumulates. Another game is the instant lottery, with scratch cards that let players know immediately if they have...
Hart expected to lose Pennsylvania, but he considered it just one more round in a "Ping Pong match." Last week in Wisconsin, Hart narrowly won a "beauty contest" popular vote on Tuesday, but lost the actual delegate selection at the party caucuses on Saturday, by 2 to 1. Of the remaining 1,601 delegates to be chosen after this week, almost a third-563-are from Western states. Coloradan Hart expects to "do well" in such forums as his home state on May 7, Oregon...