Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After 13 years of legal overtime, the contest that began in 1977 between the NCAA and basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, over recruiting violations ended last week in a draw. In an unprecedented reversal, the NCAA lifted the ban it had imposed on the...
Fast-buck artists take note: get yourself arrested in New York City, and you could be $150 to the good if you're kept in the slammer for a night without proper amenities. That is precisely how much U.S. District Judge Morris Lasker last week ordered the city's correction...
It must have been a bittersweet moment for Margaret Thatcher. Minutes after Britain's Conservative Party announced that it had chosen her next-door neighbor, Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major, to succeed her, the ousted Prime Minister dashed through the connecting door between No. 10 and No. 11 Downing...
Meet Grinby, Boingo, GeeGee, Slats, T.K. and Scopes, cousins of the popular Koosh Ball toy -- a "cross between a porcupine and a bowl of Jell-O" that goes "koosh" when you catch it.
The resurgence of regional wines has been spectacular. In New York acreage planted with vinifera grapes -- meaning the classical European varietals -- has vaulted from 349 to 2,135 since 1980. Much of that growth has taken place in virgin territory, the North Fork of Long Island, which is blessed with...