Word: beating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with it. Harvard will have a shot at redemption Saturday when it travels to archrival New Hampshire. With a consistent defense and more passes in the offensive zone, the Crimson should be able to beat the Wildcats and reclaim the No. 1 ranking...
...ruling goes on to detail the ways in which Microsoft used its monopoly power to bludgeon the competition. If you liked the trial, you'll love the judge's greatest-hits collection of Microsoft skulduggery: binding its Internet Explorer browser into Windows just to beat out Netscape, bullying Intel into staying out of the software market, polluting Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to diminish the competitive threat it posed to Windows, threatening IBM. And Compaq. And Apple...
...agreed to share the issue's ad revenue with the Staples Center without telling its reporters or readers about the fiscal arrangement. To give the subject of the paper's journalism a share in revenues seemed like a dangerous compromise of the paper's objectivity. Reporter Jim Newton, whose beat includes Mayor Richard Riordan's office, explains in layman's terms, "If I had a financial arrangement with Mayor Riordan and wrote about him, I'd be fired. It's a conflict of interest...
...newsroom drama, the Times remains one of America's top newspapers. While the paper seemed to sag during the past decade, it has regained some bite under the tutelage of Michael Parks, the Pulitzer prizewinning foreign correspondent who became editor in 1997. The paper often beat its Washington rivals in covering campaign-finance abuses last year, does solid coverage of Hollywood business, and is in the middle of a hard-hitting series on police corruption. Though its Sunday magazine remains lightweight, the spiky, liberal-leaning Book Review is winning raves...
King County, Wash.: David Irons Jr. defeated his sister Di in a council race. She launched a write-in campaign after he beat her boss in the primaries. They live next door to each other...