Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Columbia University trustees installed former Rice University president George M. Rupp as its 18th president in a ceremony attended by more than 2,500 yesterday morning...
...women's onslaught continued through the rest of the field with Harvard runners taking ninth, 10th, 15th, 17th and 18th...
Defeating a top-20 team is not easy. In fact, defeating any team takes a lot of effort. But after losing to 18th-ranked New Hampshire and unranked Maine last weekend, the Harvard field hockey team knew that just keeping up with the 16th-ranked Connecticut (at Storrs) would be a formidable task...
...helping a young man commit suicide. A district judge ruled last week that a new state law prohibiting assisted suicide had to be enforced, rejecting arguments from Kevorkian's lawyers that the law was unconstitutional. Kevorkian, meanwhile, was present at the apparent suicide of another Michigan resident -- the 18th case on his record...
...after Short was defeated by fellow Briton Jonathan Speelman in a preliminary round of the world championship, his ranking plunged to 18th, but he picked himself up, hired Czech grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek as his coach and rebuilt his career. Patiently he battled his way through the grueling qualifying rounds of the current championship, polishing off Speelman, Karpov and Dutch grandmaster Jan Timman...