Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just ask Jimmy Johnson, who coached the Dallas Cowboys to overwhelming victories in the past two Super Bowls, then suddenly found himself out of a job last week. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones insisted that the decision to have Johnson disembowel himself was agreed upon "mutually." Johnson, for his part, embraced his old Arkansas college roommate and insisted to the press, "I can sincerely tell you that I feel better today about Jerry Jones as a friend than I have in our entire relationship...
...When Dallas made the playoffs in year three, cracks began to appear. Jones and Johnson began squabbling like tots competing for Tinkertoys. Johnson sulked when Jones brought celebrities like Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia onto the field during games at Texas Stadium. After the team's first Super Bowl victory, Jones wrested the championship trophy from Johnson's hand. Troy Aikman was throwing the touchdown passes, and Emmitt Smith was running over defenders. To Jones that was confirmation of his genius as a judge of talent. To Johnson it was affirmation of his skill at devising and executing a perfect...
Harvard students, faculty, administrators and staff are entering the information super-highway. They are using e-mail and the Internet--a global data communication network--for more and increasingly complicated tasks, fundamentally changing learning and communication at Harvard...
...fact, if it hadn't been for tiny Chaminade, Harvard would have gone winless. The Crimson beat the school renowned in the sports world for its once-in-a-decade super upset in men's basketball 4-3 and 9-4 during the Kona Softball Classic tournament to finish in fourth place out of five teams...
...latest instruments of female torture are contraptions with names like Wonderbra and Super-Uplift that force a woman's breasts, however small, into a harness, creating cleavage of the sort enjoyed by Dolly Parton. The maker of Super-Uplift describes its product as a feat of engineering (constructed with 46 separate components and underwires, a "gate back" for anchoring, and ridged shoulder straps to prevent the "embarrassing jellies-on-a-plate look"), but it is actually a feat of marketing. Reconvincing women that the absence of breasts holds them back is as easy as forcing hemlines up or down...