Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those bids should go to Minnesota (11-2-3). The AWCHA is probably holding its second-annual national championship in Minneapolis to increase its fan base in the Midwest, which is likely to have a women's hockey conference to rival the ECAC in the form of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association next year. And Minnesotans will want to see their Golden Gophers in the national championship...
Upon graduating from Miami's North-western High School, the 6'7 James was one of the most sought after athletes in the nation. He was a First Team All-State selection in Florida, as well as a "Parade Magazine" Third Team All-American, finishing as the school's all-time leader in points (2,358), rebounds (1170) and blocked shots...
Nowhere was the tragic news from Europe watched with more concern than in the Rocky Mountains and the Cascades of the western U.S. Each year thousands of avalanches occur there without causing any damage. But with the rising popularity of backcountry skiing, more and more people are deliberately putting themselves in the way of the white death...
...chronicling ("One more topsy-turvy, hunky-dory, manic panic, magic high..."). And if the hard-rocking numbers never really get the pulse racing, the lyrical interludes give some excellent singers a chance to shine, particularly AnnMarie Milazzo as Jamie's mom, who sprinkles Happy Birthday Darling with country-and-western teardrops...
...Levi Strauss announced that it's laying off a good chunk of its work force, partly because so many Americans have abandoned authentic blue jeans for designer jeans. That gave me a little more appreciation of what Weyrich was getting at. All of us with an interest in preserving Western civilization have our own notion of what just might be the last straw...