Word: robin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that was then. In 1988 Tyson's life spun out of control. There was the marriage to Robin Givens, the death of Jacobs, a pact with King, a car crash, the firing of Rooney. By the time Tyson fought 42-to-1 underdog Buster Douglas in February of 1990, he was out of shape, and Douglas KO'd him in the 10th round...
...their employees, another debacle of Barings' magnitude could occur in the near future. Financial regulators should be even stricter in the wake of the disasters associated with derivatives. However, responsibility for the misguided actions of the culprits ultimately rests with them and the colossal financial firms that employ them. Robin Lim New York City
...game will take place in Florida a week from tomorrow in a kind of unofficial round-robin tournament. Stanford and Harvard are the only Division I teams there, so it makes sense for them to play each other...
...cultures hero, a man of science as well as a man of letters. W.H. Auden detected the budding synthesis in Sacks' work in the early 1970s, when he declared Sacks' book Awakenings a masterpiece of medical literature. Hollywood grasped this high concept two decades later. Awakenings, the movie, starred Robin Williams as the dedicated doctor and Robert DeNiro as a patient temporarily freed from years of catatonia by Sacks' experimental use of the drug L-dopa...
...real stars of the show are Robin VerHage's costumes. The main characters and their compatriot Westphalians all wear white. They proceed through a whirlwind tour of countries and climes whose inhabitants run the gamut of color and texture. The lively contrast amply compensates for deficiencies in the score. VerHage has turned a costumer's nightmare into an audience member's pipe dream...