Word: purist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, O'Leary would just as soon not get the oars. "I'm somewhat reluctant," O'Leary said. "I'm a purist: I don't like to see technology take away from the athletes themselves...
...ballpark has the non-symmetrical dimensions that every baseball purist has built into their ideal stadium: 335 feet to left field, 319 right field, with a deeper power alley in right-center field than in left-center and a 25-foot tall wall in right. The deepest part of the ballpark isn't even dead center field--it's to the left of dead center, 410 feet away from home plate...
...either have an investment strategy or a consumption strategy, and this is where we have different views. George Bush's economic philosophy is purist laissez-faire: Go out and compete; good luck; I hope you make it. The purist laissez-faire approach does not work...
...open, not the whipped-up whir that a triple must be. Yamaguchi and Harding may land perfect leaps in tandem, a few feet apart on the ice. All the women are intently absorbed, and their jumps look less like stunts than whitecaps bubbling out of waves. To a purist, Ito and Harding may lack finesse, Yamaguchi passion, Kerrigan the competitive killer instinct. But one of them will harness her painfully acquired skills to her natural effervescence and skate away with the gold medal. It could be one of the Olympics' great performances...
...Angeles to show off his ideas. At the same time, ethnic communities were growing rapidly, especially around Los Angeles. The town of Westminster in Orange County was becoming a vast Little Saigon, eerily reminiscent of Vietnam two decades ago. Monterey Park is now the modern Chinatown, where purist chefs from Hong Kong disdain any mixed methods -- and draw their own faithful crowds...