Word: across
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taking a pass from sophomore defenseman Peter Capouch, Bala motored down the left wing to move in on Snee for a mini-breakaway. He cut across the goal mouth, faking on his forehand and sliding the puck in on the backhand...
...expanded its lead on a pretty goal five minutes into the third. Pothier took the puck in the slot and waited for a diving Capouch to slide by him. He cut across to his left and buried the shot five-hole...
...support tends to be shallow; voters who like him often can't say why. But if his ideology--a dab of conservatism here, a touch of moderation there--remains difficult to pin down, that is precisely the idea. His self-styled New Republican approach continues to draw supporters from across his party's ideological spectrum. By emphasizing issues like education, for example, Bush is attracting women voters at levels other Republicans can only envy. He is even winning favorable reviews from a majority of moderate and conservative Democrats, according to data collected by the Pew Research Center. And while...
...buyer is a diamond dealer, registered with the Zambian government. He will drive back across the border where there is no border, just thick bush, scrubland and cattle trails. Even if he passes one of the rare police posts, he will just drive through and wave to the guards, perhaps give them a cigarette. He doesn't have to declare the diamonds. All he has to do is go to the Ministry of Mines in Zambia and get an export permit. He makes up a name and address of the "supplier" in Angola. The diamonds are now instantly legal...
...number that holds the secrets of the universe.) Books on mathematics, such as Fermat's Enigma and A Beautiful Mind, the tale of a schizophrenic mathematical economist who wins the Nobel Prize, hit best-seller lists here and abroad. (I came to appreciate the eclectic taste of our friends across the pond when my book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers shared the London Times best-seller list with two titillating biographies of Princess...