Word: slot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ranked Chang had to fill the number one singles spot void in order to rest Mike Zimmerman. The other five singles players--juniors John Tolmie, Shyjan and Derek Brown, and freshmen Ian Williams and Marshall Burroughs--won in straight sets despite the fact that they were bumped up one slot by Zimmerman's absence...
...final jingle of change through the slot above the lion-head spout served a cup of coffee for eternity. Last week Horn & Hardart closed the nation's last surviving Automat, on New York City's 42nd Street, two blocks east of Grand Central station. First opened in 1912, the cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard...
...Iowans are betting that it will bring tax revenues and jobs. Last week legalized floating casinos returned to the river for the first time in nearly a century. Three ships, the Diamond Lady, the President and the Casino Belle, left from separate Iowa port cities. They were loaded with slot machines, blackjack tables and roulette wheels as well as bettors who pay from $7.95 for a breakfast cruise to $40 for a weekend jaunt...
...flanker Varela has moved to scrum-half since Keiko Morris '92 broke her leg during the fall season. Second-Row Megan Todd '91 will line up with either Dopkins or Maxime in the middle of the scrum. Williams rounds out the back of the scrum in the eighth slot...
...diligently trying to add greater luster and further lucre to the music biz by modernizing the Grammy Awards and trying to slip them into some semblance of synch with contemporary taste. It took NARAS until 1979 to give rock its own category, but lately it has cooked up a slot for everything from...