Word: superably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replacement players made the strike fun for us. For one spectacular game, Timmy Smith made us forget John Riggins. And, of course, we won the Super Bowl...
...final straw was Sunday. The Super Bowl Champion Washington Redskins lost at home to our eternal rival, the Dallas Cowboys--one of the worst teams in the NFL. Washington wept...
Similarly, the most notable research project now being planned is the billiondollar Superconducting Super Collider to be built in Texas. This will no doubt be an impressive piece of equipment, of considerable value to American and world particle physicists. But extremely large projects like this eat up tremendous amounts of the budget for basic and applied research. By spreading our money around to a variety of potentially fruitful areas, we will be hedging our bets for technical breakthroughs, and likely get a larger amount of information for our expense...
...Asahi Breweries, looking to reverse its declining fortunes, produced a beer that it hoped would capitalize on the country's traditional preference for dry drinks in times of prosperity. Asahi's fermentation process used high-power yeast to reduce a beer's sugar content. The resulting brew, called Super Dry, is clean and crisp, with only a trace of sweetness and a short, slightly bitter aftertaste. It swept the Japanese market, in which dry beer now accounts for 35% of sales, and triggered a pack of imitators. Whether that story will repeat itself in the U.S. remains to be seen...
...down! The best-selling toy of the 1988 Christmas season is a video game: the Nintendo Entertainment System. The toy consists of a computer control box and a pair of joysticks (about $80), a gun-light Zapper ($25) and software cartridges ($25 to $40) that play such games as Super Mario Bros. 2 and Double Dragon...