Word: slams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right. Shortly after the Russian invention of soccer, the gangly Karim picked up a soccer ball and playfully thrust it back over his head into a potato basket hanging from the rafter of a people's barn. He thus simultaneously invented both the in-your-face reverse slam dunk and the entire game of basketball. Watch for the complete story in Izvestia...
...Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ((NATION, May 4)) is moving in the right direction. These immigrants came to the U.S. for the same reason our ancestors did: to be free. They saw a new frontier and a chance to leave unemployment and poverty. How can we slam the door on them...
...that the maker of Ivory soap, Crest toothpaste and Crisco oil has its hands on the greatest food-industry breakthrough since, well, sliced bread. Within two days of the FDA filing, P&G shares jumped 10%, to 93 5/8. P&G (1986 revenues: $15.4 billion) has "hit a grand-slam home run," says Hercules Segalas, an analyst for the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm. "This is going to be the single most important development in the history of the food industry...
What do a 7-ft., 6-in Dinka tribesman-turned-NBA shot blocker, a 5-ft., 7-in. ACC freak show-turned-NBA slam dunk champion, and an academic All-America sociology major from Harvard have in common...
...scarcely 180 lbs., physically he is not even the most imposing of all the Davises in the major leagues (there are ten). Two days later, he hit three more homers -- one to right center, one to dead center, one to left center -- including his second grand slam of the weekend, putting him first in the National League in home runs (12), RBIs (27), runs (27), slugging (.900) and on-base (.475) percentages, game-winning hits (4) and batting average (.411), and second in stolen bases (10). If he is not launching balls over the center- field fence, he is retrieving...