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...same thing, without the Patriot missiles. A well-planned expansion, like the 1969 addition of the Kansas City Royals, can go well. But if you don't pick the right market and form a team that wins games within five or six years, you have the Seattle Pilots. A washout in the Pacific Northwest, the team changed ownership and moved to Milwaukee to become the Brewers...
What would have been the biggest Ivy League upset of all was a washout when Harvard held on against Columbia last week, but there was still excitement elsewhere around the Ancient Eight...
While Brown's weekend was not a total washout (the Bruins buried Pennsylvania Friday), Yale was unable to salvage the weekend, losing to the Quakers Saturday...
...blanket welcome when they returned to Washington last week. The capital's skies spat and drizzled. The public- approval rate of President George Bush had climbed to nearly 80%. And the early victory the Democrats had planned against Bush over his unpopular China policy proved a washout. In the process, both Congress and the White House made it clear that the uneasy partnership they attempted last year will give way to the partisan bickering of an election year...
...anniversary of Woodstock arrived and waned, much like the first time around. It was mostly a convenience for the media, a way to get a handle on an upstart pop phenomenon. For music, a fan remembered, all the festival symbolized was a washout. Lysergic mud and bad amplification. The rest was a fairy tale...