Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Umpiring behind the plate is even harder, because your mind begins to play tricks on you. You begin to root for balls and strikes, your strike zone shifts arbitrarily by batter, or even by pitch, and you start to make make-up calls, and then make-up make-up calls. One time I got caught dozing and a kid walloped a ball 250 feet. I looked up to see it tailing rapidly, about 15 feet above the left field foul pole. I suppose some folks would have called it a three-run homer, but I just called it a foul...
...sized dog named Lady along spotless sidewalks. While Lady, appropriately accessorized with a pink bow and a tumor half her size, waddled through pristine gardens, we relished our inter-generational paradise. Surrounded by Buicks, pastel buildings, and sweater-clad dogs, we truly had stumbled into spring break Twilight Zone...
...tons of expensive basketball shoes, only to watch the goods sit on the shelves. In running shoes, Nike had problems with fit and what insiders call product "freshness." And missing in the retail mix was a good selection of shoes below $80, in what the industry calls the "kill zone"--where the bulk of unit volume is done. The sluggish sales accelerated an industry consolidation among retailers. "I can't emphasize enough the profound revolution the retail side has gone through in 1996 and '97," says Clarke. "No way you can go through this without some adjustment...
...says Liberty Bank & Trust, the Grand Chinarestaurant and many more restaurants and shops arein the process of opening on lower WashingtonStreet, in the heart of the Combat Zone...
Moreover, is the lack of minority involvement in some of Harvard's student organizations a result of students falling into a comfortable zone among people who share their "bright-orange sign," or is it that their time is consumed in ethnic organizations, and so they have little time to spend in other organizations...