Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eric Johnson is a hell of a football player, but Joe Walland is special," Murphy said. "Walland is one of those quarterbacks who wills things to happen. He should have legendary status in this neck of the woods...
Every Harvard student should probably take a minute now and then to remember that this is not normal; that we live in a bubble of special treatment that encompasses most of the country's good colleges and an always shockingly small percentage of its actual citizens. Final club members should take a lot of minutes, whenever possible, to enforce this reality check. One of the most unnerving aspects of the clubs is their potential for loss of perspective. It is so frighteningly easy to lose sight of the absurdity of a bunch of 20-year-old guys renting out Boston...
...colorful pioneer, but the business he started in Australia has become famed for producing wine that's not a cheap facsimile of other nations' wine but a unique, hardly ordinary invention. While Australia's wine matches the best in the world in technical expertise, there is something special about the taste of the country's top blends that has made it an irreplaceable flavor in many of the world's great wine cellars. This week Sotheby's and Christie's will conduct two of the largest wine auctions in history, each boasting impressive lots of the famous Penfolds Grange...
...last year, and will balloon to $4 billion by 2002, according to a market analyst. To keep the money coming in, the company doubled its lobbying outlay starting in 1996 to more than $4 million in 1998. Among its other paid advocates: former Senator Dennis DeConcini; former Watergate assistant special prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste; and Thomas Parry, former chief of staff for Senator Orrin Hatch, who heads the Judiciary Committee that considers such requests. Hatch has used Schering-Plough's Gulfstream IV jet five times this year for his presidential campaign, reimbursing the company at first-class-airfare rates...
...Reform Party nominee --Lou Bega's next single --Kathie Lee Gifford's Christmas special --Our neighbor's Y2K bunker --The Ask Jeeves Thanksgiving Day Parade float --Michael Jackson playing Edgar Allan Poe in a movie --Bill Gates' appeal --Y2K: The Movie --Willennium, the Will Smith album --Kurt Warner's second half --The recession --The presidential-campaign debates --The final episode of Shasta McNasty --Howard Stern dating --NHL Minnesota expansion team, the Wild --The debut of the trampolining competition at the Olympics --Bulgarian air-traffic controllers...