Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone can't stay at UniLu, we give them a blanket, a plate of hot food, coffee," Fisher said...
...this, they claim, is about individual freedom! Let students decide in the dining halls, they urge, so that those of us who want to protest worker conditions can munch on raisins instead. Besides threatening to ruin many a friendly lunchtime conversation ("Wait--are those grapes I see on your plate?"), this approach really only serves one party: those who want to eat grapes. Several students acting individually will always be incomparably less powerful than Harvard College acting as a whole...
Baseball's expansion teams appear to have already learned one of the fundamental lessons of the game: Anybody with a left arm that can sometimes find home plate is worth his weight in television contracts. When those noveau riche Sun Belt teams in Arizona and Tampa conducted their raid on the talent of their older cousins Tuesday afternoon, both immediately went for left-handed pitching. Tampa selected Florida left-hander Tony Saunders with its first pick, while Arizona picked Cleveland lefty Brian Anderson. The draft was further indication of the triumph of America's changing demographics over baseball tradition...
Believe it or not, he's even worse off the field. Unless you think that allegedly getting caught in a hotel room with a couple of hookers and a nice plate of crack is no big deal...
When will it stop? When it always does. When the last speculator gets hung out to dry and the patient buyers begin to step up to the plate. The market that always bounces back first is the country with the strongest bond market. And that would be? Hmmm, that's easy. The United States...