Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Snowboarding team: marijuana can be easily acquired in the Pit...
...event, Todd Richards launches and spins his way past fellow American Ross Powers toward a victory. Richards, who defeated Haakonsen at last year's U.S. Open in Stratton, Vt., was expected to challenge Haakonsen for the gold in Nagano. Their rivalry will remain non-Olympian and will certainly not pit the U.S. against Norway...
...must-see rivalries will pit Richards, 28, against Powers, 18, who is an F.I.S. halfpipe prodigy and has already done much to pump up the competitiveness of the F.I.S. circuit. The outgoing Richards, though he had some difficulty in the first Grand Prix event, came on to win the second stop at Mount Bachelor with a fluid technical style rooted in his first passion, skateboarding. Powers, one of the more disciplined and reserved riders on the tour, has exploded into the top rankings this winter with several convincing wins. Even without Haakonsen, the U.S. will have its hands full holding...
...candidates pined for was long gone before any of them had even applied to Harvard. The council, I can recall from my days of covering it three years ago, was far more of a forum for blatant partisan politics before PUCC than after; the council chambers were a snake pit of backstabbing quasi-politicos walking around in suits and trying to look important while they planned one miserably failing social event after another...
...rethinking the Broadway business in creative ways. Livent has set aside a block of VIP seats for each performance of Ragtime; at $125 a pop, high rollers get access to such amenities as a private lounge, free drinks and bathrooms that don't have lines snaking into the orchestra pit. To satisfy the overwhelming demand for Lion King seats, Disney chairman Michael Eisner has suggested starting a second company in the same theater to give extra matinee performances on weekends and nights when the theater is now dark...