Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read everything under the sun--a ton of D-Day books, interviewed D-Day vets," says Liu, a Poughkeepsie, N.Y. native. "I've never been so steeped in a subject. The other speech writers and I lived and breathed it for two months...
Entrees are priced between $15 and $22 and include chicken, fish and vegetarian dishes. Sortun described Mediterranean cuisine as healthy "food of the sun" because it relies on natural flavor and is not masked by heavy sauces...
Instead, each side seems to be hunkering down for a long winter's war of attrition. The owners hope that a player strapped for a payment on the cabin cruiser or the chalet in Sun Valley, Idaho, will be more amenable to their point of view come February. The union thinks owners, deprived of the revenue that off-season ticket sales generate, will cave in. Meanwhile, the union has begun to make payments to its members from a $200 million strike fund. Neither side shows an inclination to blink...
Come November the rainy season will be supplanted by the snowy season, whose chief benefit is that it makes the rainy season appear positively benign by comparison. The snowy season will continue until shortly before Commencement, when the sun will return in time to provide a natural light source by which visiting alumni can write hefty checks to the Development office...
Bagwell, Gwynn, Griffey and Williams may yet have their years in the sun, but what really depresses is the realization that with every week and month of games lost, for all the fans still waiting patiently through this longest of rain delays, that many more foul balls don't get sprayed into the crowd, and kids like me, or real kids half my age, can't hold them aloft with the triumphant innocence of youth. And when baseball loses its youth, we won't have baseball...