Word: cladding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mural, at a lone table far away fromthe main event, two black men shoot a game. In themidst of jolly family fun and Hollywoodexcitement, one of the black players, dressed in ashiny leather suit with matching hat and danglinggold medallions, lines up his next shot.Meanwhile, his partner, clad in a blue and whitejumpsuit, shakes a fistful of dollars and a bottleof liquor, the Sully's tallisman. The mural maysay a number of things about Sully's--but mostlyit says that this place hasn't changed much overthe years...
...Dusty tended goal for Japan (while Sweden's Ulf Samuelsson was forced off the team when it was found he carried a U.S. passport too and so was no longer technically Swedish). Dutchmen turned the M-Wave speed-skating arena into a province of Holland with their jolly, orange-clad fans--the Brazilians of winter--and their nine medals (out of 15). Gianni Romme, after winning the first of his two world-record golds, said there was nothing special about his country's program: "We are Dutch, but we could be Norwegian or German...
...there were no mysteries, no shades of gray. Every question had an answer, every answer had a point value and at the end of the game, I knew just how much everything I knew was worth: a TV, a surround-sound stereo system, a free vacation, leggy pastel-clad women clinging to my arms in celebration as the closing credits rolled, a front page photo in The Harvard Crimson, recognition by drunken partygoers, the list goes...
With each train arriving at the Arlington T station in downtown Boston, alternating waves of high school students clad in T-shirts and jeans and Harvard first-years in black tie and ballgown finery flooded into the lavish mezzanine of the Park Plaza Hotel Saturday night...
...first hint to Saddam that the sky is falling again will come in the darkest hour of the night. He'll hear the whine of dozens of titanium-clad cruise missiles as they arrive in Baghdad from U.S. warships and submarines in the Persian Gulf and perhaps from giant B-52 bombers lumbering in from their Indian Ocean base on Diego Garcia. The cruise missiles will come crashing through the windows and walls of Iraq's main military command-and-communications centers. Over the crump and flame of those explosions will sound the roar of low-flying F-117 stealth...