Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over Virtual Boy, Nintendo's long-awaited, low-cost virtual-reality rig for Everyman. Or Everyboy. Or Everygirl. Whatever. The women are learning how to demonstrate it, fooling around with a prototype of a boxing video game. ("Face down in the goggles, please. That's it. Click here to throw a right, there to throw a left, and don't forget to duck!") But hurry. It's 7:30 a.m., and the wide glass doors are about to swing open on the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, the equivalent of opening night for the $56 billion home-electronics industry...
...second overtime, the Crimson's Achilles heel was its free throw shooting. Harvard went to the line eight times, and only hit two of the shots. That won't win you many games...
...particularly strong start. After the 35-pound weight throw, in which junior Stephen McCauley was outdistanced by two feet, the Crimson ripped off first places in five straight events. The troika of freshman Josh Nicholson (6'4"), junior Terrence Mann (6'2") and senior Joseph Ghartey (6'2") combined for a high jump sweep and five points in the scorebook...
...with a job that defies political physics: figuring out how to spend more than $100 billion over the next five years on an income-tax cut, as well as numerous tax breaks for wealthy investors and business, while beefing up spending for the military and without increasing the deficit. Throw the balanced-budget amendment on top of all that, and it would seem that he was well into the realm of the impossible...
...Party and Salinas' hand-picked successor. As a replacement, Salinas pressed the party's Old Guard to choose his Education Minister and Colosio's campaign manager, Zedillo, a Yale-educated technocrat. As a campaigner, Zedillo was so colorless that at one rally his wife had to nudge him to throw his arms into the air and shout "Viva Mexico!" at the appropriate moment. But he was committed to the Salinas reforms. Then in September came another blow: the killing of Zedillo's main political adviser, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu...