Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drove through town after town, always seeing the same thing: a depressed downtown area dotted with closed shops and "For Sale" signs and an area on the outskirts of town where Wal-Mart, Taco Bell and other such stores existed in all their banal, sterilized splendor. There was a stretch in Minnesota and Wisconsin where there were definitely more Pizza Huts than grocery stores...
There's more than a home run record on the line this week as Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire head into 1998's home stretch. Sosa is mired in an 0-17 slump after hitting his 63rd last Wednesday, and his Cubs have fallen a game behind the Mets in the wild-card race. The good news for Sosa is that he faces his favorite pitching staff -- that of the hapless Milwaukee Brewers -- Tuesday and Wednesday. McGwire, still miffed about that homer that was stolen from him on Sunday, has a two-dinger lead as his Cardinals host Houston...
...this time, of course, Clinton was winding down his affair with Lewinsky -- who had been transferred to the Pentagon in April, and was to have no more sexual relations with Clinton for the rest of 1996. It's not much of a stretch to imagine Monica picking up a newspaper in June, seeing the photo of Mondale jogging with Clinton and reading more than she should have into the suggestive headlines. Mondale's national profile was rising; she had already done a photo shoot for Vogue (she would do another in November 1997, just before visiting the White House...
...killed her lover Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. French authorities still have no clear answers to many vexing questions. They say they have definitively ruled out the possibility of a conspiracy, and now consider the crash an accident owing mainly to drunk driving, excessive speed and a dangerous stretch of road. Yet many of the key mysteries are far from solved--and some troubling facts have emerged. Among them: the hastily rented black Mercedes S-280 may have had serious mechanical failures; and driver Paul's blood, apart from a high alcohol content, showed an abnormally high...
...Fayed lawyers say the two men erred by not insisting on a backup car, by allowing Paul to take an indirect route down a dangerous stretch of road, and in Rees-Jones' case, by putting on his own seat belt without insisting that the others do the same. Should one or both bodyguards decide to take legal action against the Fayed camp, they can expect to face some severe countercharges...