Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that score, the Cleveland Indians stroked a monstrous home run last week. They are riding about as high as any team in baseball, having sold every seat for every game in a popular new stadium for three years running. They're in first place in the American League's Central Division this year and have become mainstays in post-season play. Cashing in on that success, the club's controlling shareholder, Cleveland investor Richard E. Jacobs, sold 4 million shares at $15 each to raise $60 million. One hopes his many new partners are rabid baseball fans with no economic...
...future promises to liberate us from the tyranny of artists who would suck us into the swirling maw of their moving pictures, music and books. If we can extrapolate from cybercave-wall stuff like Cyberswine, the next thousand years of storytelling will put us in the director's seat. The descendants of video games, interactive TV, online environments like MUDs and MOOs (where Net folks cavort in text-based worlds) and hypertext will vest the power to create in the viewers' hands...
...election of Harris, a member of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), capped a dominant showing for the party in the School Committee elections: The top two vote-getters, Alice L. Turkel and Susana M. Segat, are both CCA members, and Harris' victory gave the party a two-seat majority on the six-member committee...
...election to the Irish Senate representing Trinity (universities are represented in the upper house of the Irish legislature), a seat she held until moving on to the presidency...
...twice ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the lower house of parliament and was instrumental in a failed 1983 campaign to legalize abortion...