Word: slot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LOUISVILLE. For years the only high scorers at Fairdale High School were its basketball stars. Good teachers shunned the school, located on the outskirts of town. Today 31% of Fairdale graduates go to college, 11% more than in 1987, and there are nine applications for every available teaching slot. "If you want to be on the cutting edge of teaching," says social studies instructor Jackie Powell, "this is the place...
This is Notre Dame's first-ever tournament appearance. The Irish qualified for the slot reserved for the top team in the Midwest and the West in the Eastern-dominated sport...
...side are also illegal. But that has not kept thousands of gamblers from both sides of the border away from the blackjack, roulette and baccarat tables at six gaudy gambling palaces. Since last June, federal and state law- enforcement officials have repeatedly raided casinos, confiscated cash and removed slot machines in an attempt to keep gambling within legal bounds. But a shutdown would require continuous police presence, a provocative move U.S. officials have not been ready to make...
...recent week's worth of prime-time TV watching on all four broadcast networks. Why would anyone voluntarily subject himself to nearly 50 hours of sex-and-sass sitcoms, puerile police procedurals and yuppie yammering about the meaning of life? Call it a census of sorts, a time-slot-by-time-slot canvass of the nation's nightly fantasy life, a solitary journey up the lazy river of the collective consciousness armed only with VCR and fast-forward button. The goal was to view television through the eyes of an outsider and to pretend to encounter the Huxtables, Roseanne...
...HRDC gave CityStep a one-time slot. Negotiations between CityStep and the ART for future performances were unsuccessful...