Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's team got a ticket to the Big Dance with a second-place finish at the New England Championships on April 20-21, while the coed team also made it with a second-place finish, but instead at the New England Dinghy Championships...
...prefer to save it until later in the contest. But more immediately, Dole knows it would be quite unwise to make an overhaul of affirmative action a campaign issue as long as he clings to even the slimmest prospect of attracting Colin Powell to the Republican ticket. When the issue came up during a recent Dole strategy session, campaign manager Scott Reed quickly shot it down. A Dole adviser who attended said the Dole camp will not discuss affirmative action anytime soon--and maybe not for a long time...
...which drags back Vietnam once again after all these years. What was wrong with Boorda wearing the pins had something to do with what was wrong with Vietnam. It was a mendacious war, for all the valorous blood spilled there. Everyone knows that far too many ticket-punching military careerists doled out too many extravagantly overstated battle citations--a corrupting form of self-congratulatory fantasy related to the practice of inventing big enemy body counts to measure American progress...
...going with Gorbachev," the Moscow airport ticket clerk says scornfully. "If I had a gun I'd kill him myself." In Russia these days, such remarks are common. The last President of the former Soviet Union is reviled by many of those he once ruled. Free-market liberals disdain his vacillating support for economic reform; Communists and nationalists detest him for his role in ending the empire. No matter. Gorbachev is waging a quixotic race for Russia's presidency and this day is heading 700 miles south of the Kremlin to plead his case in Volgograd...
...meters to provide warmth and food to dozens of would-be peak beaters, the issue for elite climbers was no longer whether they could reach Everest's pinnacle but rather how many paying customers they could take with them. It was not exactly a risk-free ticket to Disneyland, but for less than $100,000 a wealthy and dedicated amateur could buy a decent chance at summiting: money could buy altitude...