Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...cheerfully. While at a baseball game last summer, Magnuson asked Church if he could recall his first visit to a ball park. "Of course he could," says Magnuson. "It was back in high school, and he knew who played and who won. But he was really disgruntled that he couldn't recall the score...
Even if they are not planning to sell, homeowners feel poorer when values drop. "The price of your house was your standard of value in the 1970s," says Kathryn Eickhoff, president of her own economics-research firm in New York. "You couldn't make money in the stock market, but you knew your house would go up in value. But now that confidence is being tested, and people feel vulnerable...
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...JAZZY WONDERLAND (Columbia). And just when you thought you couldn't bear another Christmas song, here come 14 of them by a gaggle of top jazz artists ranging from Harry Connick Jr. and the Marsalis family to Dexter Gordon, Marlon Jordan and Joey DeFrancesco. Hardly the first -- but far from the worst...
...discourage Iraqi visitors, we got the idea of immobilizing the building's elevators. Imad agreed to knock out six of the seven lifts. He removed some parts, and the elevators stopped running. It was wonderful. Upstairs we took doorknobs off fire doors so looters couldn't move around so easily. We carried the knobs around in our pockets...