Word: throwing
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...free strike" zone, local U.S. commanders didn't really feel they were doing their job if they weren't chewing up the countryside more or less nonstop. Consequently, as the sun dipped below the horizon, artillery shells would whistle down through the jungle canopy and throw up enormous red sprays of laterite-clay clods...
...YORK CITY: As basketball teams rush to throw tens of millions of dollars at free agents, the NBA must wonder whether it will be felled by the same problems that have damaged Major League Baseball. In one weekend, teams committed nearly half a billion dollars to eight free agents, three of whom have yet to win a single NBA playoff game. And that doesn't include the biggest fish in this summer's free-agent sea -- Shaquille O'Neal, who has been offered $115 million over seven years to re-sign with Orlando. The barrage of deals began after...
...show as a portrait of potential customers. Financial-services company Advanta underwrote the show, and 15 hotels are offering package deals that include VIP admission to the exhibit. In a broad bow to popular culture, Sandra Horrocks, the Philadelphia Museum of Art's vice president for marketing, will throw out the first pitch when the hometown Phillies play host to the Florida Marlins on the Fourth of July. Her spheroid: a vibrantly colored, vinyl-covered ball with Cezanne's signature on it that the museum is selling for an impressive...
...center of this optimism is a bold new approach to AIDS treatment called combination, or cocktail, therapy. It's a simple idea: HIV mutates so fast it eventually becomes resistant to any drug that doctors throw at it. Two drugs, attacking the virus in two different biochemical ways, can keep HIV off balance and make its evasive tactics harder--though not impossible--to sustain. But even a slippery virus like HIV can't deal with a three- or four-pronged assault. So said computer models, at least. But until late last year, no one had come up with a third...
...pleased, and made it clear he was not ready to give up any of his own powers." The newly appointed Lebed should take care that he doesn't wear out his welcome in the Kremlin. Boris Yeltsin brought the former soldier into the government; he can also throw Lebed out.-->