Word: faulting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they wear to convince everyone what true fans of the game they are. Some even bring bags with four or five rackets. (You never know when Chrissie or Andre or Mac is going to need a partner, I suppose.) Listen to their hushed analysis of Becker's last double fault--"The Bor-meister is going to have to get that serve in if he wants to win this game." Watch them willingly pay 35 bucks for a white T-shirt with a little "Fila" logo. They all deserve to be locked in a room with Bud Collins and Ilie Nastase...
...failure in leadership handicapped Israel when dealing with its most recent crisis, the Palestinian uprising. Friedman compares the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a fault line that for 20 years was capable of absorbing slight tremors so well that many forgot about its existence. But the earthquake finally struck in the form of the intifada--the Palestinian uprising of anger couched in vows to throw off "Israeldom...
...mother, in contrast, becomes dangerous if left alone. She works her way through the crowd and explains to total strangers how the entire delay is my fault...
...other, putting the oppositely charged umbras in contact. The results are spectacular. "Because the umbras have opposite polarities, they attract each other," says the Marshall Center's Moore. "The closer they are together, the stronger the pull. Then, as they push past each other, it's like an earthquake fault slipping. In this case the stored energy is released in a flare." In the sunspot group that produced the flares of March, he notes, spots of opposite polarity were close together...
...Basinger's fault that her character is so dull. Sam Haam and Warren Skaaren, who wrote the screenplay, don't seem to have much interest in elevating women beyond the level of comic-book bimbos...