Word: beaters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After stunning Boston College 62-61 on a buzzer beater in last Wednesday's season opener, the Harvard men's basketball team (2-0) followed up that thriller with another quality performance in beating Holy Cross (2-3) 84-70 last night at Lavietes Pavilion...
Clemente's second three-pointer of the night, a neat head-fake swish from the left wing, shaved the lead to 60-59 with 10 seconds to play and set up Beam's buzzer-beater...
Smack in the American heartland, far from both Wall Street and Asia, the 15,500 workers of Harnischfeger Industries, based in St. Francis, Wis., got slammed from both directions. A proud world beater that builds mining equipment and huge machines that produce 70% of the world's printing paper, Harnischfeger has just seen its sales to Singapore and other troubled Pacific Rim countries drop from $600 million a year to nearly zero. Its stock, riding high at $44 a year ago, was beaten down to $16 in last week's market rout, gutting the 401(k) retirement plans of many...
Christopher So was a key, if troubling, witness. A convicted embezzler and wife beater, he had to be dragged into the courthouse clad in slippers and shorts. Once there, though, he earned his keep, testifying that he had overheard Markhasev say, "I shot a n_____. It's big." In cross-examination public defender Henry Hall grilled So about his pending reward, asking if he understood he might become rich by cooperating. So answered, "That did cross my mind...
...school basketball tournament was winner-take-all, no matter how big the team or how small. Not now: Some geniuses decided that it would be more sporting to break the tourney into divisions, based on school size. David vs. David, Goliath vs. Goliath. No more Bobby Plump, whose buzzer-beater in 1954 gave tiny Milan High (enrollment 161) the state title and a hallowed place in local legend...