Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ours, not interested. Let the rest of the world play this game (and call it football). Let big companies sign up to promote the sport -- and lots of cars and cameras. Let those foreigners throw their World Cup party in our backyard. We'll stay inside and watch Ken Griffey Jr. hit home runs...
...drug lords in Medellin threatened to kill one team member if a substitute did not start (he started). Next, the coach was fired directly after the loss. Finally, rumors have claimed that Colombian gambling syndicates bet heavily against their national team and promised bloody reprisals if they didn't throw the game...
...Gaskin's lights, President Clinton is left with three bad choices: mount a Normandy-style invasion from the shores of a reluctant Japan; use atomic weapons on Pyongyang, at the cost of countless civilian lives and the peninsula; or simply throw in the towel. Last week Gaskin defended his three- year-old prognostication: "I don't think it's changed much, except at the margins...
...meet--which is considered to be the highlight of the winter season--were sophomores Darin Shearer, who won the 1,000-meter run in 2:23.92; Shayne Mauricette, who won the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.34; and senior Dave Anderson, who won the 35-pound hammer throw with a toss of 18.86 meters...
Next year's students will probably study,agonize, complain, throw snowballs, sing andbehave nuttily at strange hours...