Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sports in America operated on the promotion/relegation system, as we have in soccer around the globe? Imagine the Las Vegas Thunder or the Atlanta Knights joining the NHL, at the expense of, say, Ottawa and Hartford? Or the Milwaukee Brewers going "down," as they say in England, and the Richmond Braves being promoted to the big leagues...
...first match of the tournament, the squad beat Richmond, 14-11. In the contest, the team was paced by junior Julian Alexander, with four goals; freshman Andy Davis, with three, and junior Alex Kim, three...
...RICHMOND -- DOUGLAS WILDER's scuttling of his independent Senate candidacy in Virginia probably saves the seat for incumbent Democrat Chuck Robb. But wait -- there's a flip side: Democrats may lose two tight House races in which they were counting on a large turnout of blacks voting for Wilder to translate into votes for regular Democrats lower down on the ticket...
While some 2,000 hearts are transplanted each year, last week's operation was apparently unique. "I'm not aware of any cases in which a heart was transplanted from one family member to another," says Joel Newman, spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing in Richmond, Virginia, which maintains a nationwide registry of 35,000 requests for organ donations, about 3,000 of them for hearts. "While the odds of this occurring are extremely slim, this puts a human face on a real problem for thousands of people awaiting organs. You can save lives by donating...
...particular delight, as do the names of birds and men. The strange birds give the narrative its own kind of plumage: teal, merganser, kittiwake, cormorant. When the men of the town are searching for a dinghy lost in the fog, they track each other by calling out names: " 'Richmond Fauvette, this is Oliver Parmelee.' 'Oliver Parmelee, this is Fabian...