Word: reno
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...three-day, $100,000 race to 120 in Hong Kong?billed "The Color of Money I"?against top American Earl Strickland, winning 120-117 and collecting $75,000 (less a $10,000 winner-to-loser payment he and Strickland agreed to before the match). A year earlier in Reno, Nevada, again facing Strickland, he had produced one of the most memorable shots on record. "Earl left him on the end rail totally tied up behind the nine ball," recalls Helfert, the tournament director. "It looked like there was no possible way for him to hit the object ball, which...
...first. There is also enough time for a cure to come along, which might well happen if politics don't get in the way. And Parkinson's is fashionable these days. It's a hot disease, thanks to celebrity sufferers like the Pope, Billy Graham, Janet Reno, Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox. Even, they say, Yasser Arafat...
...took 50 years for the government to finish compensating Japanese victims for their unfair treatment. In 1999, then-Attorney General Janet Reno called the episode “a tragic chapter in the history of our nation...a time when we took away the liberty of an entire community of Americans...
...Union Building across the street, presumably because of the telcom companies and government agencies housed there. So we feel as if we are close enough to the new Gettysburg to be part of the new war effort. Or at least an upmarket extension of Afghanistan: what the performance artist Reno calls ?Tribecastan,? and I call Ground Plus...
Similar scares swept the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio and the rural biweekly Dickson Herald in Tennessee. Fox News in New York revealed that a letter addressed to its president, Roger Ailes--opened, as was Brokaw's letter, by an assistant--had also contained a mysterious white powder. And in Reno, Nev., officials said a letter returned to a Microsoft Corp. office from Malaysia, apparently having been intercepted and tampered with, had initially tested positive for traces of anthrax...