Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potential exists, in the form of pent-up buying power that fear of the future kept people from unleashing. If they keep spending now, that will raise the possibility of a beneficial circle: more sales, more production, more hiring, more income, still more sales. The circle may not spin fast enough to produce a boom -- but who wants one anyway? Moderate, steady growth is better...
...heroes rematerialize only when they start believing in themselves again. Superhero Zack goes on to win a break-dancing contest. Along with lessons in self-esteem, the show serves up good-versus-evil showdowns and kids as Ninja-like conquerors. Get ready for some more heroic real-kid spin-offs...
Harvard has not won the Ivy League championship in the 90-odd years since the Ancient Eight was still modern. Not once. Never. While Pennsylvania and Princeton can spin tales of NCAA tournament glory, Harvard can but mutter in its beer. Understandably, this fosters a certain degree of apathy among potential fans, most of whom elect to throw their loyalties to other schools...
Holmes would have had another score but for a sprawling breakaway stop by Finch, who with 28 sparkling saves was equal to most of the firepower the Crimson threw at him. On the whole he faced the tougher chances, including a stop on a cute Spin-o-Rama move by junior Cory Gustafson (were you watching, Denis Savard...
REPETITION IS HONORED AS A necessary principle in the music of Bach, the spin of prayer wheels and the effective swinging of a baseball bat over the long season and into the play-offs, but not in the matter of cop-and-crime stories. This is unfair. "You're reading another one of his?" the addict's spouse derides, leaving unspoken the remainder of the gibe ("rather than learning Italian or visiting the aged...