Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...league there's no team I have to lose money on every week, as I do with the Eagles, my hometown fave. I'm emotionally incapable of betting against them. I don't think I could have learned these companies fast enough without facing the prospect of looking stupid against my fellow coach. And if I hadn't, I would have missed a couple of 50-point moves in real life from application of my Rotisserie knowledge...
...want Danny Ainge to have a good holiday season with his family. The former Suns coach and one-time Toronto Blue Jays prospect quit coaching basketball to spend time with his wife and kids. There need to be more people like him who understand their priorities...
...year 1999 draws rapidly to a close, much of the Harvard community seems more preoccupied with holiday parties and the prospect of a two-week vacation than with a potential Y2K-related catastrophe...
...circulated that the government was planning to release damning kompromat (compromising materials) about him. One version current in the Duma was that this would take the form of a tape, either video or audio, of Luzhkov ordering the murder of a business rival. No tape ever surfaced, but the prospect of a brutal war of charge and countercharge reinforced the urgings of some of the mayor's advisers: forget about the presidency, back someone else and position yourself to be the great reformist Prime Minister of the new millennium...
...Monetary Fund has given Russia billions of dollars in loans but failed to create a stable economy. The U.S. Senate has resolved to create an ICBM protective shield once it becomes technologically feasible. Such a shield would allow the United States to launch a nuclear strike with impunity, a prospect that is understandably frightening to the Russians, not to mention Dartboard...