Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really matter if he weren't a nice guy--Mike Tyson captivates--but McGwire happens to be Oprah-fied in all the right ways. He missed the opportunity to hit 50 homers in his rookie season in order to be present at his son's birth. After a batting slump and a divorce from his first wife, who had been a college girlfriend, he started therapy, and he has stayed with it. His three-year, $30 million contract stipulates that that his son Matthew, now 10, who is often the Cardinal bat boy, gets a seat on the team plane...
...along with that newfound popularity comes attention from those Hayes might not want to encourage. A court in Georgia has ordered that Hayes pay an old debt of nearly $90,000, plus interest. The order was originally obtained in 1989, but the creditor knew Hayes' career was in a slump and didn't pursue it. (Hayes was jailed that year for nonpayment of child support, which he has since paid.) Now that Hayes is famous again, the order has been revived. But how far can a chef's salary...
...Compared with their generation, maybe I am lucky. I can choose for myself." Like many her age, Lei spends little time thinking about politics. When pressed about the reforming Premier Zhu Rongji, she says only, "People around me say he will make China stronger." Her real concern is the slump in tourism from Asia's economic crisis. "But tomorrow will be better," she says cheerfully. "I trust in China...
...order on the yen as it plummeted to 146 to the dollar, threatening to kick off a new round of falling-currency dominoes in Asia. The big risk was that it would force Chinese monetary authorities to devalue the renminbi and ultimately turn Asia's deep economic slump into a global recession...
Refusing to allow this rough stretch to bring the team down, however, the Crimson showed much heart in recovering to end the season. Harvard proceeded to defeat Notre Dame, Columbia, New Hampshire and Cornell to end the season red-hot. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the midseason slump proved to be its undoing, as it was denied an invitation to the ECAC tournament...