Salzburg was eliminated for the second round of voting, which Vancouver won 56 to 53, bringing the Olympic Games to Canada for a third time (Montreal had hosted in 1976 and Calgary in 1988).
After the Canadiens were eliminated for the third straight year in the first playoff round during the spring of 1963, there was mounting pressure for change from their fans and media.
Houston finished their season 55 27, but were eliminated for the second year in row by the Jazz in the first round of the playoffs, 4 games to 2. The next off-season, the Rockets acquired Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings.
Another highlight of the speech was Reagan's call to end the arms race with his reference to the Soviets' SS-20 nuclear weapons, and the possibility "not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time, an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth".
Sharp, also a supplier of screens for Apple products, has eliminated jobs for the first time in six decades and put up its corporate headquarters as collateral to secure a 360 billion yen bank bailout in September.
The home mortgage deduction could be eliminated for individuals purchasing second homes, saving the federal government $20 billion over 10 years.
In torrid conditions the Hockenheim circuit played to the strengths of the Michelin-shod Williams technical package and, with two of his rivals for victory eliminated at the first corner, Montoya had, by his own admission, a relatively easy afternoon.
Ballots for candidates eliminated after the first round were recounted to allocate those voters' second choices.
The Mavericks were eliminated in the first round for the second straight year, which could cost Johnson his job.
Germany was eliminated in the first round for the second consecutive time European Championship.
