Word: quests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Seattle Mariners is a perfect example of what is currently right in baseball. Playing in a small market with a team that knows little about winning, his highlight films rarely made the 11:00 news on the East Coast. Yet fans nationwide were acutely aware of his quest to break Roger Maris' home run record; he arrived in Pittsburgh this year for the All-Star game with 1.8 million votes more than any other player in history. He recently played himself, in the movie Angels in the Outfield. People are actually seen outside of King County wearing Mariners caps...
...with quality whatsoever. "What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay," he wrote in 1908. "Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture." In an age when the quest for "diversity" has turned into a form of cultural apartheid, Joplin's achievements and values serve as a reminder of just how potent cultural fusion...
...best reprise of the 1992 campaign likely to see print. While overly charitable to their candidates, the authors are meticulous and nonideological about the political narrative. There are, to be sure, scant revelations. Mary and James have future careers in politics and remain chary about violating trust in the quest for truth...
...even such battle-hardened successes do not assure victory for AmEx in its quest to reclaim the top standing it lost in 1989 in the $562 billion credit-card industry. The U.S. market is saturated with 1 billion pieces of plastic, issued by 6,500 companies. "Industry competition has turned into quite a fray," says Mark Tonnesen, president of credit-card services for Bank One in Columbus, Ohio. "The winner in all of this is the consumer." Even AmEx's Skillern acknowledges that "the world probably doesn't need a new credit card," though he remains confident that "consumers will...
...enough to keep children interested but not so tough as to cause them to switch off their machines. Davidson & Associates' Math Blaster, a venerable series that has sold 1.6 million copies since 1983, freely borrows video-game techniques. The latest title, In Search of Spot, sends kids on a quest to rescue the Blasternaut's caterpillar-like space pal. The correct answer to a math problem puts the user closer to freeing Spot from the Trash Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with more than 150 challenges to their ingenuity, ranging from...