Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard defense picked up its share of the slack, tightening the noose around the Dartmouth offense. Even though Big Green quarterback Brian Mann had had a career first half by completing 22-for-29 passes (15-of-16 in the first quarter), the Crimson secondary and the defensive line suffocated the dynamic Dartmouth offense...
Both teams felt the pressure that the game signified. For the Crimson, the team's long history of losses to Brown put pressure on this year's squad to be the ones to turn it around. Brown, meanwhile, realized how important the game was for its path of the Eastern Division Championships, and ultimately the NCAA Championships...
Test prep and tutoring have been around awhile, along with one-on-one private college counseling, services usually purchased by the wealthy. But the advent of Achieva signals something very different. The company is the first to join all three jobs in one program, micromanaging a student's life. Achieva's pitch is simple: while others boast they'll increase a student's grade by one letter or an SAT score by 100 points, Achieva says all of last year's 1,050 clients got into college, and 85% ended up at one of their top two choices...
...from getting preventive drugs for 5 1/2 hours. If she had not complained loudly and bitterly, she might never have got the medication. The experience left her stunned and confused: "My left hand is caked in blood. I am wearing a gown and have masking tape in my hair, around my wrists, neck, ankles and knees...I realize I'm standing with my arms at my sides facing the wall, saying quietly over and over, 'I'm alive. I'm alive.'" In the account of her ordeal published in April, she noted that during the hours in which she battled...
Ameritrade's slacker-punk pitchman, Stuart, a sharp, hilarious contrast to the suits around him, has helped sell its slogan "Believe in Yourself." Career site Monster.com is taking a subtler approach. In its now famous spot, debuted during last year's Super Bowl, bright-eyed kids recite such lines as "I want to be forced into early retirement." Says Monster CEO Jeff Taylor: "Funny's good, but you have to end up with a good, lasting impression once you grab their attention...