Word: recording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game winning streak on its home field with a 1-0 win Saturday afternoon. Back in 1997, on the same field, Yale upset Harvard with a 3-2 overtime win, halting the Crimson's winning streak at 22 consecutive League matches, just shy of Brown's Ivy League record...
When he was a high school athlete, Mike Freshley asked a friend's father to hypnotize him before track meets and convince him that he could leap impossible distances. Under the spell, he long-jumped 23 ft. 3 in.--2 ft. better than the school record. At 58, Freshley, now a swimmer, no longer needs a hypnotist. Fully conscious, he can visualize heats in advance and see victory. His imagination is usually on target. In a Masters meet last year, he swam the most demanding race in the sport, the 400-m medley, in 6 min. flat, the best time...
These are more than just flights of nostalgia. On the Senior PGA Tour this year, prize money totaling more than $53 million--a record sum--will be awarded in 45 separate events. A senior golf-tournament win can bring as much as $347,000; two top performers, Hale Irwin, 54, and Gil Morgan, 53, have each earned more than $2 million a year in the past two years...
...many of the same players (including Time Warner, parent company of TIME) also formed the Advanced Television Copyright Coalition, which has threatened to sue the companies in the future for nonpayment of copyright license fees. No one, of course, is making such noises anymore about VCRs, which also record copyrighted material...
First there was a gold card and a gold record. Then platinum records and cards. But Platinum's now a deodorant, so it's time to find a new prestige metal. We asked some experts...