Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard men's tennis team was ranked 33 d in the nation, while the women came in 38th in Rolex's rankings for collegiate tennis...
...Empire State became the 38th to authorize the death penalty. Fulfilling a key campaign promise, Republican Governor George Pataki signed a capital-punishment measure into law, ending 18 years of refusal to do so by his Democratic predecessors...
Republican Gov. George Pataki used the pens of two slain police officers to sign legislation making New York the 38th state with a death penalty. Today's signing ceremony was a major victory for the state legislature, which had 18 straight death penalty bills vetoed by Democratic governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo, who was defeated by Pataki in November. The law, which will take effect in September, defines about a dozen offenses punishable by lethal injection, including murders of on-duty cops. It does not apply to juveniles or the mentally disabled. "This law alone won't stop crime...
...hundreds of lives. Most experts agree that in highly secretive North Korea, no low-ranking officer could have access to such information. Other defectors reveal secrets that sound plausible. Ahn Myung Jon, a military infiltration expert, said he used his skills to cross the heavily fortified DMZ on the 38th parallel after a disagreement with his superiors. He described being trained inside an uncannily accurate underground model of Seoul to insinuate himself into the capital. Given North Korea's success in sneaking agents into the South, the account had credibility...
...sense of history. She loved racing to the net, secure that any shot she kept in bounds would be a winner, and she loved curtsying when it was over. Probably the greatest in the history of her game, she was always at her greatest here. But with her 38th birthday looming on Oct. 18, Navratilova these days is a step slower, a return shot shy and, in her valedictory tour around the circuit, too often immersed in memories rather than the task at hand. The rigid fat-free diet, the weight training for strength and the basketball drills for agility...