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Word: 16th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekends later, the Crimson finished up its season with a 16th place finish out of 28 teams at Easterns, a disappointing end to a disappointing season...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: High Expectations Not Realized by W. Thinclads | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...team's finish, and Birney and Danics' success, guaranteed each a spot in the NCAA tournament, where the team nicely concluded its season with a fifth-place finish, and Birney and Danics finished 14th and 16th, respectively...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Women Fencers Have Best Year in Memory | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...unprofor officer: "We have a gentlemen's agreement with the Serbs. We promised not to show things that might embarrass them to journalists." Because they thought it might inflame local passions, unprofor also withheld from reporters a videotape made by U.N. troops showing Bosnian Croat tanks destroying the 16th century Stari Most bridge at Mostar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: May 23, 1994 | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

When you consider that another team with the 16th-best regular season record made it to the Stanley Cup Finals only three years ago (Minnesota), who knows, Maybe the Sharks have what it takes to be the answer to a more meaningful trivia question than "Which team popularized teal uniforms...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: The Shark Attack | 5/3/1994 | See Source »

...current feud began in a Chicago cancer ward, with the 1981 death of a man named Ranjung Rigpe Dorje. After the 1950 occupation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, Rigpe, the 16th Karmapa, had established a thriving exile community and engineered the school's current Western popularity. Yet he appeared to have left one task undone: the penning of the traditional poem that would help his followers find his reincarnated self -- and thus the next Karmapa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Future Buddhas | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

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