Word: showdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Head down to the FleetCenter for a 12:30 p.m. showdown between the Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards. Tickets available for as low as $10--even with an additional $1.70 in T fare, it's still cheap afternoon entertainment. Call Ticketmaster for advance tickets...
...games, big game, big game! This weekend Harvard baseball travels down to Providence for a four-game showdown with division co-leader Brown. The Crimson, the two-time defending champs and pre-season pick for the league championship, have improved their capricious play of late and look to pull away from the Bears and the rest of the league this weekend. Catch the hourly Bonanza bus to Rhode Island and ditch the pre-frosh in favor of some good old-fashioned school spirit...
...April 3, they drove past Cornell and Penn at the Matthews Cup, held in Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. One week later they beat Dartmouth and MIT decisively in the Biglin Bowl, which took place on he home course. The next day, they journeyed to Princeton for a showdown with Rutgers, where again they prevailed by over eight seconds on the 2000-meter course...
...moving; Jack travels with Bat to Tombstone, the first of his many journeys. There, he sees Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, both mean and rather flawed heroes; Jack follows them to the Ok Corral anticipating trouble, and describes the misunderstandings leading to needless violence that happen in the legendary showdown...
Instead of rallying Republicans, the Balkan showdown has exposed how divided the party is over America's duties in the post-cold war world. After days of tap dancing, by late last week the Republicans had cleaved fairly cleanly between two camps: those in Pat Buchanan's populist, isolationist fortress who were arguing we should leave Europe to the Europeans, and those who, belatedly in some cases, fell in step behind Arizona Senator John McCain, the former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and called for NATO to fight on even harder to preserve the credibility of U.S. power...