Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a certain, dangerous school of modern fiction that believes that a bit of trouble is all that's necessary in a good book. Throw in some personality tics, add a major societal problem for the main character to grapple with, and bingo! You've just won the Seventeen magazine fiction contest and a three-book deal with a major publishing house...
Still, Holy Cross would not go down without afight. In the top of the sixth inning, theCrusaders once again pulled to within one when,with runners at the corners, first baseman GhiaGodfree's throw to the plate bounced by Teller androlled into the Holy Cross dugout. Two runs camein on the play to make the score...
...make Chinese firms more competitive, that means letting them have access to everything from DuPont's chemicals website to the U.S. Patent Office's listing of new inventions. For that reason, some Chinese think the government will drop all its talk about an intranet and throw open the doors. Says a 24-year-old engineer at Unicom-Sparkice: "Walk into any Chinese company with Net access and look at the hard drives; look at the bookmarks in the browsers. It's all U.S. content...
...Bipin Shah agitates me," Faye says. "Do you know why? Because when you throw a $2 million bounty on a woman and her two kids, there are crazies out there who aren't going to worry about her safety. He's not going to pay it anyway. He wouldn't pay $35 for ballet lessons...
...billion stock swap. The combined entity would comprise three of the original seven Baby Bells with more than $40 billion in annual revenues, controlling some 57 million lines in 13 Western and Midwestern states. Only U.S. West now stands between SBC control of nearly three quarters of the U.S. Throw in telecom deregulation that should eventually allow local phone companies to enter the long distance market even as households are adding second and third lines for Internet access, and suddenly San Antonio-based SBC is starting to look an awful lot like the phone company of Lilly Tomlin's dreams...