Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never hear a guy in a mosh pit yell, "This band rocks! They're so professional!" You'll never attend a concert in Madison Square Garden and hear a chant go up: "Responsibility! Responsibility!" Now that Love's focusing on music again, she needed a sound that fitted her new values while accessing her old passion. A sophisticated sound that still rocked...
Still, with the outcome of Tuesday's elections almost assured, many Massachusetts voters are already gearing up for an election that will pit two highly visible candidates and their highly visible records of public service against each other in the race to become the next Bay State governor...
...Absent from those and any other of Mahathir's proclamations over the past few years has been any sense of personal culpability for the tar pit that his country?s economy has abruptly become. The usual Asian suspects ?- crony capitalism, lack of financial disclosure and plain old-fashioned corruption ?- are as responsible for Malaysia's fall from grace as any of the wretched excesses of Western investment capitalists. But now, Mahathir has in mind for Malaysia a resurgence that not only restores to his people their achingly recent prosperity but forces a cataclysmic readjustment of the way the West would...
...That screaming, raucous pit that is the Chicago Board of Trade's public face could go the way of $40 per trade commissions if members vote tomorrow on a proposal that would radically alter the exchange's 'open outcry' system by augmenting it with an electronic, paperless trading system...
...Definitely most of the time it's a pit," Weinstock said. "There's dirty dishes everywhere, there's dirty pots everywhere...