Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wonderland'sclientele already watches the races on closed-circuit TV. There just isn't that much toexperience. As Vader wrote, "there are no manesand tail blowing, no bright silks, no sweat nobloodlines going back centuries, no Old Kentuckyhome," Wonderland runs ads featuring abasset houndnamed Buck-O with a rocket strapped to his backbeneath the legend, "The Basic Idea BehindGreyhound Racing." They're supposed to betongue-in-cheek. But that is the basic idea behindgreyhound racing. It's too damn fast. by the timeyou've figured out which dog is the one you beton, the race is over...
...World League has spiced up the rules a little to keep their product exciting and different from the NFL. For example, the World League offers the two-point conversion after a touchdown. And on kickoffs, a flat tee is used to make higher kickoffs more difficult, thus encouraging the Rocket Ismail-type return. The newest change is the overtime system. During the 10 minute overtime, each team gets to possess the ball of offense, at least once. The team that scores the most points wins. If the score is still tied after 10 minutes, the game ends...
...price could be a huge increase in power for Le Pen's National Front. It has only one parliamentary seat now, but if last week's voting pattern were repeated under full proportional representation, it would rocket up to 77 seats (out of 577). A onetime student thug in the Latin Quarter who lost an eye in a street brawl, and an ex-paratrooper who interrogated prisoners in Algiers (he denies having tortured them), Le Pen tries these days to project a more moderate personal image. He dresses in dark suits and subdued neckties rather than the army khakis...
...plot of the story was familiar to any science-fiction fan. The crew of a rocket ship returns to earth after a long space voyage only to find everything changed. It was exactly that way for Sergei Krikalev. When he blasted off in May 1991, he was one of the proudest of elites, a Soviet cosmonaut. Last week, when he came back after 313 days in orbit, he found a different world...
...them scalped, others shot through the head. Armenians claim the footage is fake. They insist that they left a corridor open for civilians to flee Khojaly but that Azerbaijani soldiers led a group of 200 civilians into harm's way. The use of surface-to-air missiles, sophisticated Grad rocket batteries and armor proves that both sides are now armed with state-of-the-art weapons that were bequeathed by, sold by or stolen from Soviet units...