Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seasons, baseball has followed the sun at Chicago's Wrigley Field. Long after every other major league stadium began featuring night games, the ivy- covered ball park resisted installing lights. Last week, under pressure from Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Cubs, the city council voted 29 to 19 to allow the Cubs to play eight night games this season and 18 each year until 2002. Nearby residents contended that night baseball would bring an undesirable element into the area. But the Tribune Co. noted that night games would earn millions of dollars in additional television revenue. As an inducement...
Marcia Rieke sits on a mound of dirt on a cold mountaintop, nearly two miles up in the clear Arizona sky, watching the sun go down and worrying. A shadow slowly creeps past her, cast by a nearby tan, four-story building that looks like a gigantic bread box. Inside the bread box is the Multiple Mirror Telescope, the world's third most powerful telescope. It looks like no other. There is no glistening dome; it might be a four-story barn. But there are 800 * tons of it, and it turns. The whole structure can pirouette 360 degrees, enormously...
...undergraduate who is spending a year abroad at Oxford, to avoid English homosexuals and "to concentrate on nice normal boys if you can find any in that dear decadent old country." She accuses her widowed mother living in Florida of financial imprudence and of ruining her skin in the sun: "I was shocked to see how brown you were. You looked dyed, frankly, and with your tinted hair the effect was honestly bizarre...
...team championship will not earn that spotlight. To clinch first place there, a squad must rise with the sun and nail down times in the trial heats. Because, at this Women's Easterns, it's the early bird that gets the title...
Since raising its flag in 1977, Bophuthatswana (pop. 1.7 million) has always been considered the most viable of the four "independent" black homelands | set up by South Africa. Bop, as the homeland is sensibly known, derives substantial revenues from platinum mining and the gambling resort of Sun City. But Bop -- and Pretoria's oft-denounced homeland policy in general -- suffered an embarrassing setback last week, when a coup briefly toppled the government...