Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newly purchased Buick Skylark along with two passengers, one of whom had just sold 8 oz. of cocaine to an undercover narcotics agent. Facing narcotics and firearm charges, Garrett must stand trial next month for allegedly stealing two bottles of cognac from a liquor store. The unlucky winner did manage to make bail by pledging $80,000 as security -- from his future lottery payments...
They were only by-elections for eleven of 400 parliamentary seats, but they were a crucial test of political strength. When the results were in last week, the big winner was Suleyman Demirel, 61, the six-time former Turkish Prime Minister whose center-right True Path Party won four seats and 23.5% of the vote...
While the winner here will control his own destiny, the loser is by no means out of the race. There's only been one undefeated league champ since 1970, so a 6-1 mark would still look pretty good at the end of the year...
Pennsylvania got goals from four players--including midfielder Nicolette Phear, who scored the game-winner off a penalty corner four minutes into the contest--and the usually stellar Harvard defense collapsed as the Quakers romped, 4-0, in front of 150 spectators...
...nasty palace coup. While TV cameras recorded the scene, Newly Crowned Saengravee Asavarak, 22, was beaming before a Bangkok audience of 2,000 when someone grabbed her tiara and put it on the head of the sobbing first runner-up. Then another hand attempted to pull off her winner's sash. Saengravee was popular with the audience, but hardly with other contestants. Some accused her of having her makeup done outside (rather than using Avon cosmetics like everyone else), wearing false eyelashes and having had her nose fixed. When the melee died down, Saengravee wore her crown and sash...