Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anaheim--New coach in former Houston skoipper Terry Collins. He's hyper and may pump up this young team. The team also acquired solid players in Jim Leyritz, Dave Hollins and Eddie Murray. Watch for pitcher Shigetoshi Hasagawa (okay, I just like saying his name...
...sent prices back down for a 29 point dip by day's end. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond, used in determining consumer and business lending rates, increased only slightly, rising to 6.95 percent from Monday's 6.92 percent. For a tricky balancing act, it was a solid first day. If the Fed succeeds in creating a "soft landing," it will be only the third in the central bank's 84-year history. Most previous attempts to ratchet down growth have ended in economic downturns. Greenspan is counting not on the historical odds but the immediate precedent from...
...peach pit to the tree it becomes, loaded with fragrant blossoms and sweet fruit." Like Russell's, Tada's heaven is firmly God-centered ("Most of all, together we shall fall on our faces at the foot of the throne and worship our Savior forever"). Her musings are scripturally solid, although she points out that even biblical tropes are "only shadowy images of the real thing." Perhaps most important, she is not afraid to sell. "Oh, the things that we shall do!" she writes. "You and your friends will rule the world and judge the angels...Together, we shall receive...
Tyner said that UNC was a solid team. "It wasn't an accident that they were a number one seed," he said...
...Ford?s work?no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better than he does?and director Alan J. Pakula?s analogous strengths. Pakula develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel. At a moment when everyone is saying the studios have lost the knack for making solid, broadly appealing entertainments, 'The Devil?s Own' suggests the skill may only be mislaid. Of course, it helps when you hire grownups to do the job." BOOKS . . . JOHN WAYNE'S AMERICA: In his new history, (Simon & Schuster; 380 pages; $26) Gary Wills imagines that the the fact that John Wayne still...