Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...measures that are anathema to his beliefs. In 1990, for example, Castro began soliciting foreign investment. Though he continues to declare that Cuba will never sell off its state-run companies, he has opened up strategic areas such as telecommunications, oil exploration and mining to joint ventures. The latest shocker: condominiums for sale to foreigners, with titillating hints that even land ownership may soon be possible. Drawn by the promise of pent-up demand and the conviction that, in the words of a confidential British report to investors, the reform process is ``cohesive, systematic and unstoppable,'' Canadian, Mexican and European...
...needed a couple of breaks to topple [Harvard]," St. Lawrence coach Joe Marsh admitted after Friday night's shocker, the 12th-place Saints coming through after 60 minutes with a 4-3 win over the Crimson--No. 2 in the conference...
...last matchup was one the Crimson might rather just forget. Harvard fell in a shocker, 4-3, in Providence, never leading in the contest...
...tenth-place finish by St. Lawrence last season was a shocker up in Canton, N.Y. The Saints are almost always one of the top teams in the league, but injuries and inexperience killed them last year...
...namemate from another era and forges a powerful link in baseball's memory chain. So this year let us induct Harvard Eddie Grant and Parisian Bob Caruthers, Goose Goslin and Goose Gossage, Rollie Fingers and Mordecai Peter Centennial (Three Finger) Brown. Not to forget those matching tabloid headlines, Urban Shocker and Country Slaughter...