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...Minneapolis Lakers to five titles in the team's first six years; of kidney failure; in Scottsdale, Ariz. The 6-ft. 10-in. DePaul graduate so dominated the newly formed NBA that he forced the league to change its rules, expanding the 6-ft. "key" to thwart his offensive dominance, and once prompted Madison Square Garden officials to promote a 1949 game as "Geo. Mikan vs. Knicks...
...unit, GM Daewoo Auto & Technology. In 2002, GM and its partners acquired the choicest assets of bankrupt Daewoo Motor for $440 million?and it looked like they overpaid. Daewoo's market share in Korea was shrinking and its factories were running at half their capacity. Union members tried to thwart the deal by rioting around the main factory near the port city of Inchon...
Three batters later and with runners at first and second, Brown again got the better of O’Dea, ripping his fastball to straight-away center, but, as before, Potvin retreated and, with little time to spare, hauled in the line drive to thwart yet another of Harvard’s chances...
...country. They don't need another watchdog looking over their shoulder and attempting to solve every problem. David Stack Yorba Linda, California, U.S. Strained Relations Re Your story on President Bush's visit to Europe [Feb. 28]: Bush's purpose in crawling back to Europe was to thwart the development of a united Europe and to cajole, browbeat, scare or even threaten Europeans into submission to America's policies of global vandalism and institutionalized lawlessness. Some in the U.S. seem to think that the American dead in European war cemeteries are a more than adequate and compelling reason for European...
...much for their public stunts as they are for the Zeitgeist. They’ve led a group of people dressed as corpses from the gallery to the front of City Hall, protesting Cambridge’s reluctance to remove deceased voters from the rolls so that it could thwart a proposed rent-control ordinance. They’ve held a massive monopoly game to protest local gentrification...